Gustl French

Auguste L. "Gustl" French was an Austrian-American painter, printmaker and photographer.

Biography

She was born and educated in Vienna, Austria, receiving a doctorate in modern philology from the University of Vienna. While in Europe, she studied with Oskar Kokoschka.
She came to the United States in 1944, fleeing the Bombing of Vienna during World War II. She taught at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and moved to California in the mid-1950s with her family. There she studied in Oakland at the California College of Arts and Crafts, and at the Claremont Graduate University in the M.F.A. Program.