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Colorful Swiss Landscape signed 0. Leu – Geneva Countryside

Colorful Swiss Landscape signed 0. Leu – Geneva Countryside

Colorful Swiss landscape signed O. Leu and dated 1960.
Yellow fields, and red-roofed houses, with mountains in the background.  We are not certain of the location, but the low lying hill to the right reminds of the Saleve near Geneva, so this may well be a landscape from  Lake Geneva area.
Painted in a colorful post-Impressionist style.

February 24 2010 | Posted in 20th Century, Fine Art, Landscapes, Oil, Post-Impressionist | Read More »

Vinzenz Daxelhofer (Dax) – “Reisen” (Traveling) – Mixed Media on Board

Vinzenz Daxelhofer (Dax) – “Reisen” (Traveling) – Mixed Media on Board

Mixed media on Board entitled “Reisen” (Traveling)
Dated 1989 on the reverse.
127 X 123 cm
Swiss artist Vinzenz Daxelhofer, known as Dax, was born in Bern in 1938.   He studied architecture at the ETH in Zürich, and painting with the Swiss artist Max von Mühlenen in Bern.  Early in his career (1965-1971), he  worked primarily as an [...]

February 24 2010 | Posted in 20th Century, Featured Fine Art, Fine Art, Mixed Media, Paintings, Switzerland | Read More »

“Taste” Mezzotint from the “Five Senses” by Johann Jakob Haid (circa 1760)

“Taste” Mezzotint from the “Five Senses” by Johann Jakob Haid (circa 1760)

Der Geschmack by Johann Jakob Haid
Johann Jakob Haid (1704–1767) was a German Engraver who worked in Augsburg and was well known for his beautiful Mezzotint (Schabkunst) engravings.
This charming engraving shows a couple tasting a drink from a fine porcelaine cup.
Verses about taste and eating appear in French and German below the engraving.

February 13 2010 | Posted in 18th Century, Allegories, Germany | Read More »

Jörg Shimon Schuldhess, Elephants and Hanging Men, Tribal and Indian Influence

Jörg Shimon Schuldhess, Elephants and Hanging Men, Tribal and Indian Influence

Jörg Schulthess was born in Basel, the son of a father from Emmenthal and a sephardic Jewish mother who had emigrated from Italy. Schuldhess was a close friend of Jean Dubuffet and became interested in and influenced by Art Brut, particularly the work of Adolf Wolfli.

February 12 2010 | Posted in 20th Century, Art Brut, Artist's Prints, Fine Art, Living / Dining Room, Primitive / Tribal, Switzerland | Read More »

Gabrielle Debillement-Chardon – Portrait of a Young Woman

Gabrielle Debillement-Chardon – Portrait of a Young Woman

Portrait of a young woman with a blue headband bedecked with flowers. Dated July 1946. The French artist Gabrielle Debillement-Chardon (1860? – 1957) specialized in miniatures and paintings of beautiful young women. She was also the author of a book on the art of painting miniatures on ivory.

February 11 2010 | Posted in 20th Century, Bedroom/Bath, Drawings, Fine Art, France, Portraits | Read More »

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