George H. Walker was born on April 9, 1930, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His parents were
immigrants from Germany. Walker received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Indiana
University. He served in the United States Army and moved to Milwaukee in the early 1960s.
Walker has served on the board of the Charles Allis Art Museum and was among the first to be
invited to join the Pilot Club of Milwaukee, a service organization for executive, business,
and professional leaders. Walker has been active in local art circles for many years.
Karl Priebe was born on July 1, 1914, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Emil and Katherine
Priebe. He studied at the Layton School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago. Priebe served on the anthropology staff at the Milwaukee Public Museum from
1938-1942 and was the director of the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts from 1943-1944. He
then returned to the Layton School of Art in 1947 to serve as an instructor. During his
career, Priebe won the prestigious Prix de Rome (1941),
received critical acclaim for his paintings in New York, and gained recognition as a leader
of the emerging "fantasist" school. His reputation enabled him to support himself from the
sale of his works, which were exhibited in major public and private galleries from coast to
coast and in Paris, Mexico City, and Tokyo. Six institutions acquired his paintings for
their permanent collections. Karl Priebe died July 5, 1976.
