A Life Between Borders Gustav Wolf began his training in the private school of Hans Thoma, where he learned to follow his own hand. His early years in Germany were marked by a deep connection to printmaking and graphic arts. He held a position as a professor of graphic arts at the Baden Art School in Karlsruhe, but the rising shadow of the Nazi regime changed his path. By 1936, he had sold much of what he owned, including his printing press, to prepare for a life elsewhere. He moved through Rome and Greece before arriving in New York in February 1938. Life in America brought new, harder rea…