The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 25, 2025
Singverein
1909
(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
Image: 19.6 x 35 cm (7 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.); Sheet: 25.5 x 35.1 cm (10 1/16 x 13 13/16 in.)
Gift of Ann Baumann 2005.441
© Ann Baumann Trust
Catalogue raisonné: Chamberlain 12
Location: not on view
Description
Baumann enjoyed singing competitions during his student days in Munich and joined a German chorale society when he returned to Chicago in 1905. Singverein depicts the group, including the artist, who is the singer with glasses at left. At the top of the scene, cherubs hold up a banner with the title Gaudeamus Igitur (So Let Us Rejoice),consideredthe oldest student drinking song in Europe.- Gustave Baumann: Colorful Cuts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 20, 2020-June 27, 2021).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.441