Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny

By Pawel Kontny

Located in Surfside, FL

Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee. Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one bears the influence of Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...

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20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Pawel Kontny
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny

$1,200

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny

By Pawel Kontny

Located in Surfside, FL

Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee. Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one bears the influence of Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...

Category

20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Pawel Kontny
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny

$1,200

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny

By Pawel Kontny

Located in Surfside, FL

Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee. Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one bears the influence of Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...

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20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Pawel Kontny
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny

$900

1930s American Modern Farm Landscape Watercolor with Barns, Windmill & Fields

By Samuel Bolton Colburn

Located in Denver, CO

This original watercolor painting by acclaimed American artist Samuel Bolton Colburn captures a quiet farmstead nestled in a mountain valley. Rendered with Colburn’s signature contro...

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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Samuel Bolton Colburn
1930s American Modern Farm Landscape Watercolor with Barns, Windmill & Fields, circa 1935

$2,450

Rainstorm Sunset

By Robert Noel Blair

Located in Buffalo, NY

You are viewing a modernist American watercolor painting by Robert Noel Blair. Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and te...

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American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Robert Noel Blair
Rainstorm Sunset, 1960's

$3,000

Riverwash

By Anne Popperwell

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Riverwash" 1985 is an original watercolor on Arches watermarked paper by noted American artist Anne Popperwell, born 1948. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 22 x 30 inches, framed is 28.25 x 36.25 inches. It is custom framed in a metal bronze color frame. It is in very good condition. About the artist. Anne Popperwell was born in Oakland, California, in 1948 and studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1968-1970 with a major in painting and a minor in photography. She has been painting and exhibiting her work in both private and public galleries, primarily in Canada, since 1981. She paints in watercolour on paper and acrylic on canvas, though not exclusively, using nature-based imagery. Shortly after her arrival in Canada in 1976, Anne moved to an island off the West Coast to paint a particular landscape, the eroded sandstone shoreline. In the course of this eight-year series of paintings, she experimented with point of view, scale and colour, developing a method of working that creates the effect of light coming from within the subject itself. Her paintings are included in private, corporate and public collections in Canada and in private collections in the United States, Mexico and Europe. Solo Exhibitions: 2016 "Shades of Saturna", Artlink Canada, Jaydon Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 2009 “Beauty” Casa Dahlia Galeria, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico 2008 “Tropical Flowers” Casa Dahlia Galeria, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico 996- "Why Don't You Just Leave?" paintings and video installation 1998 tour to 11 British Columbia regional galleries, originating at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Victoria, British Columbia 1993 Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia 1991 Fran Willis North Park Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia 1990 Fran Willis North Park Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia 1986 Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia Thomas Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1984 Grace Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Winchester Galleries, Victoria, British Columbia 1982 Kyle's Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia 1981 Kyle's Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbi1980 Kamloops Public Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia Selected Group Exhibitions: 2014 Insight Art Gallery, Galiano, B.C 2012 The Field Gallery, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico 2002 “European Media Arts Festival”, Osnabruck, Germany 1997 “Open House”, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France 1994 "Spring Run", Baux-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1994-1996 Government House, Victoria, B.C. 1992 "Hanging Gardens", Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia 1990 "Bumbershoot Festival 1990", Seattle, Washington 1986 "Images B.C." The British Columbia Pavilion, Expo 86 Vancouver, British Columbia 1985 "Hot Water Colour", Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario "B.C. Women Artists" Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia 1983 "National Watercolour Exhibition" Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1981 “Painter’s Day”, Kyle’s Gallery, Victoria, B.C. Public Collections British Columbia Art Collection, Victoria, British Columbia Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia Maltwood Art Museum, Victoria, British Columbia City of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia Esso Resources Canada, Ltd., Calgary, Alberta Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario Grants and Awards 1995 British Columbia Cultural Services Branch grant 1973 City of Vancouver Purchase Grant Exhibition Reviews, Catalogues and Articles "A Sense of Place", Aqua magazine, Salt Spring Island, B.C. (Summer 2014) illus. “Why Don’t You Just Leave?”, Exhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C. (April, 1996) illus. Cover, Preview Magazine, Vancouver, B.C., (May/June 1990) Waterman, Jennifer A. “Planetary Visions, Sacred Images of the Earth” Herizons, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Volume 4 #8, December, 1986) p. 44, illus. “B.C. Women Artists”,Exhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C. (October, 1985) illus. Orford, Emily Jane, “Anne Popperwell’s Intimate Earth”, Victoria Times-Colonist, Victoria, B.C. (October 7, 1984) p. 8 Hartog, Diana, “Body Landscapes...

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Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Anne Popperwell
Riverwash, 1985

$1,400

George Elbert Burr
A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona
c. 1920

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