Gustl French

Auguste L. "Gustl" French (1909 – 2004) was an Austrian-American painter, printmaker and photographer.

She was born and educated in Vienna, Austria, receiving a doctorate in unprejudiced philology from the University of Vienna. While in Europe, she studied subsequently Oskar Kokoschka.

She came to the United States in 1944, fleeing the Bombing of Vienna during World War II. She taught at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and moved to California in the mid-1950s in the same way as her family. There she studied in Oakland at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts), and at the Claremont Graduate University in the M.F.A. Program.