This article is about the artist. For the United States Magistrate Judge, see
Paul W. Grimm.
Paul Grimm (January 11, 1891 – 1974)[1] was an artist born to
German parents in
South Africa. As a small child, he moved with his parents to the
United States. He reportedly was seen as having artistic talent as a child and, as an adult, attended a university-level art school in New York. Between 1910 and 1920, he reportedly went to South America for a few years before returning stateside and settling in southern
California.
Grimm gained much of his present-day fame by painting landscapes of southern California in the 1920s. Many works depict alluvial fans and desert vegetation in the eastern half of
Riverside County. The
San Jacinto Mountains appear frequently in his work. Most of the works are oil on canvas. To a viewer untrained in art, his work looks similar to desert landscapes of Karl Albert (1911 – 2007). A residence on Calle Palo Fierro in the Palm Springs Warm Sands Neighborhood was built for him in 1935. He had a studio on Palm Canyon Drive in
Palm Springs from the 1950s until his death in 1974.[2]