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Fritz Brunner (1908-1996) - Framed 1980 Gouache, The Village in Summer

1980

This expressive gouache painting depicts a grove of trees in the summer heat. The artist Fritz Brunner (1908-1996) uses bold, gestural brush strokes to capture the scene. Presented ...

A charming gouache scene of an idyllic Italian street, with a mother and child out enjoying the blue skies and afternoon sunshine. The artist has indistinctly signed to the lower rig...

Bruno Krauskopf was born on 9 May 1892 in Marienburg. From 1906 to 1908 he completed an apprenticeship as a chromolithograph in Berlin, and from 1910 he began his studies under Emil Doepler at the Royal Museum of Arts and Crafts. After the outbreak of the First World War, he did his military service from 1914 to 1916 in Alsace and in Russia. In 1916 he became a member of the "Freie Secession Berlin", where Max Beckmann and Lyonel Feininger belonged too. From 1917 to 1933 he was a member of the Berlin Secession and was also a member of the executive committee and jury. In 1918 he founded the "November Group" together with Max Pechstein, Erich Mendelssohn and Georg Tappert. In the years after the First World War, he traveled in France, Italy and Poland and during this time his paintings became increasingly impressionistic. Under the National Socialist...

Watercolor landscape framed in a contemporary molding on museum mount under UV glass. American, circa 1930.