biography of Clemens J. PAULI (1835-1896)

Birth place: Lübeck (Northern Germany)

Death place: Milwaukee, WI

Addresses: Davenport, IA, active 1867; Milwaukee, WI, 1876 and after

Profession: Topographic draftsman, lithograpic artist, printer

Comments: Came to America in 1863 and first worked as a draftsman in Davenport. Met printers A. Hageboeck and C. H.Vogt (see entries) and followed Vogt to Milwaukee. There Pauli joined Adam Beck (see entry) to form a printing firm. Their partnership lasted from 1878-86 with Pauli putting on stone or zinc plates many of the drawings sent to them. A view artist himself, he had drawn views of towns in Iowa and Wisconsin in 1876-77. He reprised his artistic career in 1888, traveling the Midwest and south as far as Mississippi and Alabama.

Sources: Reps, 198-99; Thomas Beckman, "The Beck & Pauli Lithographing Company," Imprint vol. 9, no. 1 (Spring 1984): 1-6.