Background
Gaertner, Carl Frederick was born on April 18, 1898 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Son of Henry Fred and Nellie (Metzler) Gaertner.
Gaertner, Carl Frederick was born on April 18, 1898 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Son of Henry Fred and Nellie (Metzler) Gaertner.
Student Western Reserve University, 1918. Studied Cleveland School of Art, 1920-1923.
Instructor in drawing, South Side High School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1918-1920, John Carrol University, 1920-1924. Instructor in painting, Cleveland School of Art since 1925. Instructor John Huntington Polytechnic Institute, 1929-1930, Western Reserve University School of Architecture since 1925.
Free lance designer and painter since 1921.
Represented in Cleveland Museum of Art, Kenyon College, Cleveland public libraries, Cleveland Municipal Art Gallery, Metropolian Museum, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Whitney Museum of America Art, Illinois State Museum of Art, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, New Britain Art Institute, Pepsi Cola Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Swope Art Gallery (Terre Haute), Ball State Teachers College (Indiana).
Member industrial painting, 1941. Member Alpha Beta Delta, Epsilon Delta Rho. Mason.; Clubs: Salmagundi, Audubon Artists, Water Color of Philadelphia.
Married Adelle Potter, September 7, 1938. Children: Frederic Lucian, Carl Potter.