Maurice Braun (1877-1941) was born in Nagy Bittse, Hungary in 1877.  He initially painted portraits but then specialized in Impressionist landscapes, becoming an important member of the Southern California landscape school.  He was a teacher, founder, and director for the San Diego Academy of Art, 1912.  By 1919 he was devoting himself fully to his paintings, sketching outdoors and completing the work in his studio.  Beginning in 1921 he spent parts of the next years painting in Connecticut, living temporarily in the artists’ colonies of Silvermine and Old Lyme.

Studied

With E.M. Ward, Maynard, Francis C. Jones; NAD; William M. Chase

Member

SC; San Diego Art Guild (cofounder); Contemporary Artists in San Diego (cofounder); San Diego Theosophical Society; SC; Laguna Beach AA; California AC; San Diego FAA;

Acad. Western Painters

Exhibited

NAD, 1900 (prize), Carnegie Inst., 1911-15; PAFA, 1914, 1917-1919; Panama-Calif. Intl. Expo, San Diego, 1916, (gold); LACMA, 1918 (solo); Corcoran Gal. 1921; Calif. Ann, San Diego; GGE, 1939; AICWork

LACMA; Houston Art Mus; Municipal Collection, Phoenix; San Diego FA Gal.; AA, Wichita Kans; AA, Bloomington, IL; LA Women’s Athletic Club; Theosophy Center, Pasadena; LA Commercial club; Laguna Beach Mus. Art; Riverside and San Bernardino; San Antonio AA

Resources

WW40; Hughes, Artists in California, 68; P&H Samuels, 63; 300 Years of American Art, 734