biography of Hans PAAP (1894-1966)

Birth place: Hamburg, Germany

Death place: on an island in the Pacific

Addresses: Berlin, Germany; Argentina; Brazil; Hollywood, CA; Taos, NM

Profession: Painter, illustrator

Studied: in Taos with Walter Ufer & Kenneth Adams, 1920s.

Exhibited: Biltmore Salon, Los Angeles, 1928; Pasadena Art Inst., 1929.

Work: Van Vechten-Lineberry AM, Taos.

Comments: A portrait painter of Native Americans and Hispanics of Taos, he also traveled to Mexico, Hawaii, and South America. Position: art dir., motion picture industry, Berlin; painting teacher, College de Belles Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Illustr.: covers for Standard Oil Magazine.

Sources: Hughes, Artists of California, 419; add'l info courtesy his daughter, Nancy Paap (portrait of "Mable Dodge and Tony Luhan").