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George Joseph Seideneck

(1885-1972) George Seideneck was born in Chicago and received his first training at the Smith Art Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied for three years in England and at the Royal Academy of Munich under Carl Marr and Walter Thor. After his return to Chicago he taught at the Academy of Fine Art and the Academy of Design and was active in several art organizations including the Chicago Art Club, Chicago Artists' Guild, the Chicago Society of Artists, and the Chicago Palette and Chisel Club. In 1918 he traveled to California on a sketching trip, and in Carmel met artist Catherine Comstock. The two were married in 1920 and spent the next two-and-one-half years studying and traveling in Europe. The couple were co-founders of the Carmel Art Association, and George Seideneck was active in Carmel as a portrait and landscape painter and arts organizer. He exhibited at California State Fairs and Santa Cruz Art Annuals, at the Society of Western Artists, and at the de Young Museum of San Francisco, where he was awarded the Klumpke Award in 1949.

Biography courtesy of Roger King Gallery of Fine Art, www.antiquesandfineart.com/rking

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