Gustave Baumann was an American print maker and painter, and was a leading figure in the revival of color woodcut in America.

Born in Germany, he moved to Chicago with his parents in 1891. By the time he was 17, he was working for a Chicago engraving house while attending night classes at the Art Institute in Chicago. Between 1904 and1908, he returned to Germany where he studied wood carving and wood block printing techniques.

He became a member of the Brown County, Indiana Art Colony. Although most American woodblock print makers were using the traditional Japanese hand rubbed style in making their prints, Baumann's method employed color relief printing using oil-based inks and printing his blocks on a small press. In 1915, his prints were shown at the Pan-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco where he won a gold medal for his color woodcut.

By this time, Baumann was applying his personal artist's seal to his work, an opened palm of a hand on a heart.

In 1918 at the age of 37, he moved to New Mexico with the idea of joining the artist's colony in Taos, New Mexico. He found Taos too crowded and too social. He moved on to Sante Fe where he took root. In 1925, he married Jane Devereaux Henderson and remained until his passing in 1971 at the age of 90.