Biography
Emil Ganso (b. Halberstadt, Germany 1895-d. Iowa City, USA 1941), originally a baker's apprentice, went to America when he was 17. He worked in bakeries in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Cincinnati and Akron, Ohio. By 1916, he was living and painting in New York City. He was able to stop baking when Weyhe Gallery started to finance him in 1925. ,-0-Ganso was a versatile artist and painted a variety of subjects. He became best known for his erotic figures. Eventually he would become the artist in residence at the University of Iowa. In 1933 Ganso won a Guggenheim Fellowship. His paintings are many museum collections: Biblioteque National Paris; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Brooklyn Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Kupferstich Cabinet in Berlin; Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art; New York Public Library; Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Whitney Museum of American Art.
