Augusta Finkelnburg was born in Fountain City, Wisconsin in 1863 of Prussian parents. She would spend most of life in St Louis, Missouri where she died in 1942. Finkelnburg studied at the AIC, Pratt Institute, with Robert Reid, Willard Metcalf, Herbert Snell, Henry Adams, Arthur Dow, and in Paris at Academie Colarossi, Italy, Holland, and England.

An Impressionist, she used small brushstrokes and a colorful palette to create landscapes and still-lifes. In 1915, Finkelnburg exhibited at the St Louis Art Museum; at the Missouri State Fairs. She also exhibited at the St Louis Art League in 1930 and 1933 (solo).

Museum and Public collections:
Washington University; State Teachers' College (Winona, MS)
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco

Listed:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Census; Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs (Benezit, E); American Art Annual 1919-33; St Louis Globe Democrat, 7-31-1932; Women Artists in America (Collins & Opitz) 1936-41.
Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers
Who's Who in American Art 1938-39.

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton