Education:
1929 Art Institute of Chicago; studied and worked with Frederick Hibbard, Albin Polasek and
Edouard Chassaing
Selected One Person Exhibitions:
2011 Charles Umlauf: A Retrospective, Russell Collection, Austin, Texas
1995 “Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Charles Umlauf,” Meredith Long and Company, Houston, Texas
1980 Retrospective Exhibition, Archer M. Huntington Art Galleries, Austin, Texas
1979 Umlauf Home and Sculpture Garden showings, Austin, Texas
1979 T.V. Robinson Galleries, Houston, Texas
1978 Umlauf Home and Sculpture Garden showings, Austin, Texas
1977 Umlauf Home and Sculpture Garden showings, Austin, Texas
1977 Sol Del Rio Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1975 Umlauf Home and Sculpture Garden showings, Austin, Texas
1974 Shook-Carrington Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1971 La Galeria de Los Cruces, Corpus Christi, Texas
1970 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas
1967 Umlauf Retrospective, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1966 Galleria d’Arte Santacroce, Florence, Italy
1964 Abilene Museum of Fine Arts, Abilene, Texas
1964 Houston Galleries, Houston, Texas
1963 El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
1959 Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1958 Kendall Gallery, San Angelo, Texas
1957 Student Memorial Center of Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas
1957 Cushman Gallery, Houston, Texas
1956 Thomas Fine Arts Center, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
1955 Passedoit Gallery, New York
1955 Library of Incarnate World College, San Antonio, Texas
1953 Betty McLean Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1951 Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York
1948 Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York
1947 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1946 Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York
1945 Fort Worth Children’s Museum, sponsored by the Forth Worth Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas
1943 Whitte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2014 Donald S. Vogel and the Artists He Championed, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2006 Kingdom Animalia: Creatures Big and Small by Artists Old and New, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1986 Sesquicentennial Celebration, First State Bank, Abilene, Texas
1985 Third Dimensional Evening Auction, Art League of Houston, Texas
1979 Centennial Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1979 Fortieth Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1978 Sol Del Rio Gallery Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas
1978 Gallaudet College Exhibition and Lecture, Washington, D.C.
1978 Thirty-ninth Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1977 Thirty-eighth Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1976 Thirty-seventh Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1975 Thirty-sixth Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1975 Visitors’ Pavilion, Waterwood Township, Lake Livingston, Texas
1974 Thirty-fifth Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas
1974 Carrara Museum, Carrara, Italy
1974 “Sculpture Figurative,” Mangoni Galleria d’Arte, Milan, Italy
1973 American Bicentennial Celebration, Galveston, Texas
1973 Thirty-third Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1973 University of Texas Art Museum Spring Exhibition, Austin
1973 Fifteenth Annual Invitational Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Texas
1972 Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Medical School, San Antonio
1972 Galleria de Bella Arte, Camiose, Italy
1972 Thirty-second Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1971 Krannert Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana
1971 University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Austin
1971 University of Texas Exhibition and Film on Bronze Sculpture in the Making, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
1970 Thirty-first Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1970 Art Faculty Exhibition, Gallery of Men of Art Guild, San Antonio, Texas
1969 “Past Jurors Invitational Exhibition,” Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City
1969 Group Exhibition at Virgilio Cancogni Galleria d’Arte, Pietrasanta de Marina, Italy
1969 Art Department of Dallas, Baptist College, Texas
1969 Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings on Tour, Southwestern Louisiana University, Lafayette and the Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge
1969 Gallery of the Rapides Bank and Trust Company, Alexandria, Louisiana
1968 “A Particular Portion of Earth,” Pan American Building, Washington, D.C.
1968 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Hemisfair, San Antonio, Texas
1968 Twenty-ninth Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1968 Spring Sculpture Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1967 Spring Sculpture Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1967 “Creative Collaboration,” Houston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Rice University Medical Center, Texas
1967 “Our Patrons Collect,” Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1967 Library of the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Texas
1966 Twenty-eighth University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
1966 Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1966 Shook-Carrington Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1966 Friends of the Library Association Exhibition, Longview, Texas
1966 161st Annual Exhibition of American Oil Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia
1965 Twenty-seventh University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Austin
1965 “The Figure in Sculpture 1865-1965,” J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
1965 “Children in Art,” Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
1965 Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1965 Lenten Exhibition, Saint Lukes Methodist Church, Houston, Texas
1964 Fourteenth Christocentric Arts Festival, Newman Foundation Galleries, University of Illinois, Champaign
1964 Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, Kansas
1964 “Fine Arts Festival,” Saint Martins Evangelical Lutheran Church, Austin, Texas
1964 Dallas Arts Festival Sculpture Exhibition, Mercantile National Bank, Texas
1964 University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Texas Pavilion, New York World’s Fair
1964 “Painting and Sculpture Invitational,” Louisiana State University Union Gallery, Baton Rouge
1964 “Christ--The King--The Church,” Fourth Biennial National Religious Art Exhibition, Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit, Michigan
1964 Twenty-sixth University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Austin
1964 Spring Jury Show, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1963 Twenty-fifth University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Austin
1963 “Tour of Homes,” Texas Fine Arts Association
1963 Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio
1963 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1963 University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art
1963 “Festival of the Arts of the Southwest,”Saint Edward’s University, Austin
1963 Texas Fine Arts Association Spring Juried Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin
1962 University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibit, Austin
1962 Twenty-fourth Texas Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1962 Laguna Gloria Art Museum Fiesta Auction, Austin
1962 Art Scholarship Auction, University of Texas Art Department, Austin
1962 Houston Museum of Fine Arts Auction, Texas
1962 University of Illinois Biennial
1962 Texas Fine Arts Association Spring Juried Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin
1962 Adelaide Festival of Arts, National Museum of South Australia
1962 157th Annual Exhibition of American Oil Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1961 Texas Art Exhibition, Architects League, New York City
1961 Twenty-third Texas Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1961 “American Business and the Arts Exhibition,” San Francisco Museum of Art, California
1961 Laguna Gloria Art Museum Auction, Austin, Texas
1961 University of Texas Art Student Scholarship Auction, Austin
1961 “Religious Art in Homes Pilgrimage,” Birmingham, Alabama
1961 Benedictine Heights College Benefit Auction, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1961 “Religious Sculpture and Modern Church Architecture,” sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, held at the Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
1960 Dallas Arts Festival Sculpture Exhibition, Southland Center, Dallas, Texas
1960 Second Annual Exhibition of Southwest American Art, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City
1960 “Christ--The King--The Church,” Second Biennial National Religious Art Exhibition, Holy Name Parish, Birmingham, Michigan
1960 “First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Religious Art,” Religious Art Center, Seton Hill College, Greensberg, Pennsylvania
1960 “Southwestern Art Exhibition,” Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Texas
1960 “Contemporary Christian Art, ”Princeton University, New Jersey
1960 Twenty-second Texas Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1960 Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1959 “Dallas Collects,” Fort Worth Art Museum and Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts
1959 155th Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
1959 Dallas Arts Festival Sculpture Exhibition, Mercantile National Bank, Texas
1959 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1959 “Holiday of Arts,” The Grail (Council on Christian Culture), Boston
1958 “Holiday of Arts,” The Grail (Council on Christian Culture), New York
1958 Benedictine Heights College, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1958 “XX Ceramic International,” Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
1958 “International Religious Bienniala,” Salzburg, Austria
1958 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
1958 “From Rodin to Lipschitz,” Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts and Meadows Building
1958 “Sculpture Exhibition,” Providence Art Club , Rhode Island
1958 “Religious Art of the Western World,” Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas
1958 “Fifth Regional Biennial,” Friends of Art Exhibition, Kansas State College
1958 “God and Man in Art, ”The American Federation of Arts, touring exhibit
1957 Feldman Exhibit, McNay Art Institute and the Fort Worth Art Museum
1957 Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1957 Nineteenth Texas Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1957 American Federation of Arts Sculpture Exhibit, Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
1957 “Contemporary Religious Art in Texas,” San Antonio Art League, Witte Memorial Museum, Texas
1957 “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture,” Krannert Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana
1957 Eighth Annual Christocentric Arts Festival, Newman Foundation Galleries, University of Illinois, Champaign
1957 Texas Fine Arts Association Spring Membership Show, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin
1957 Seventy-sixth Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association, California
1957 “Sculpture in Architecture,” United States Information Agency, Sydney, Australia
1957 Four-Man Show, Dallas Society for Contemporary Art, Dallas Little Theater, Texas
1956 Denver Art Museum Annual Exhibition, Colorado
1956 Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition, New York City
1956 “Religious Art,” Newark Museum, New Jersey
1956 Two-Man Show, Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
1955 Sculptor’s Guild Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York City
1955 Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Chicago Art Institute, Illinois
1955 Religious Arts Exhibition, Denver Art Museum, Colorado
1955 Candidates for Grants Exhibition, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1954 149th Annual Exhibition of American Oil Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1954 “Contemporary Sculptors,” Ohio State University
1954 Candidates for Grants Exhibition, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1954 Texas Fine Arts Association Spring Juried Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin
1954 Fifty-third Annual Spring Exhibition, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
1953 “Integration Show,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1953 “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture,” Krannert Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana
1953 Sculptor’s Guild Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York City
1953 Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition, New York City
1953 Fourteenth Texas Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1952 “Texas Contemporary Artists,” Knoedler Gallery, New York City
1952 “Contemporary Religious Art,” Union Theological Seminary, New York City
1952 “The Artist’s Vision,” Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
1952 Texas Fine Arts Association Spring Juried Exhibition
1951 “Brooklyn Watercolor International,” Brooklyn Museum, New York
1951 “American Sculpture, 1951,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
1951 Candidates for Grants Exhibition, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1951 Twelfth Texas Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Houston
1951 Midwestern University Museum Exhibition, Wichita Falls, Texas
1951 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, Philadelphia
1950 Eleventh Texas Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Dallas
1950 Membership Exhibition of Texas Fine Arts Association
1950 Syracuse Museum Ceramic National Exhibition, New York
1950 Denver Art Museum Annual Exhibition, Colorado
1950 Whitney Museum Annual Exhibition, New York City
1950 “American Painting, 1950,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
1950 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1950 National Religious Sculpture Exhibition, University Of Oklahoma
1950 Candidates for Grants Exhibition, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1950 Show of Sculpture and Photographs of Larger Work, University of Georgia
1949 Membership Exhibition of Texas Fine Arts Association
1949 Texas General Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1949 Syracuse Museum Ceramic National Exhibition, New York
1949 Denver Art Museum Annual Exhibition, Colorado
1949 Whitney Museum Annual Exhibition, New York City
1949 Oakland Art Galleries Annual Exhibition, California
1949 Statue Project Exhibition, Demotte Gallery, New York City
1949 Third International Sculpture Exhibition, Fairmont Park Association and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
1948 Membership Exhibition of the Texas Fine Arts Association
1948 Texas General Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture
1948 Denver Art Museum Annual Exhibition, Colorado
1948 Whitney Museum Annual Exhibition, New York City
1948 Texas Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1948 Galerie Giroux, Brussels, Belgium
1948 Toronto Museum of Art, Canada
1948 Syracuse Museum Ceramic National Exhibition, New York
1947 Texas General Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1947 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1947 Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York
1947 “Sculpture Today,” Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
1946 Texas General Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1946 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
1946 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1946 Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York
1944 Texas General Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1943 Texas General Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
1943 “Christ and the Children,” Chicago, Illinois
1942 Two-Man Show, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1942 Texas General Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, sponsored by the Witte Memorial Museum of San Antonio, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1942 “Sculpture of the Western Hemisphere,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1942 “Artists for Victory,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1941 San Francisco Art Association Annual, San Francisco Museum of Art, California
1940 Two-Man Exhibition, Gallery House, Chicago
Public Collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian Institution)
Art Institute of Chicago
Wichita Museum, Kansas
Santa Barbara Museum, California
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Krannert Museum, Illinois
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Syracuse Museum, New York
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
Longview Museum of Art, Texas
Abilene Art Museum, Texas
El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico
Lakeview Arts and Science Center, Peoria, Illinois
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Huntington Art Gallery, Austin
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California
Marian Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Awards:
University of Texas Grant
Guggenheim Fellowship
Ford Foundation Grant
Ford Foundation Award
Member Honoris Causa of National Honorary Society, Omicron Delta Kappa
University of Texas Excellence Grant
Houston Art League Artist of the Year, 1985
Honorary Mayor for Life, City of San Antonio
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