Jinshan School of Modern Peasant Painting.  Chen Furong is one of the better known artists from this artists’ colony around two hours from Shanghai.

Vavro Oravec - Abstract Composition

VAVRO ORAVEC

(Born 1915, Tvrdošín, Slovakia)

Abstract Composition

Mixed Media on Wood Board

Signed Lower Right

28 X 45 cm

Holocaust survivor Vavro Oravec did not become an artist until after the second world war. Born in the Slovakian town of Tvrdošín in 1915, Oravec studied medicine in Bratislava during the 1930s. After being prohibited from practicing medicine because he was Jewish, he worked with Jewish children who had been expelled from school. In 1944 he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, and then sent to the concentration camps at Gross Rosen and Blechhammer.

Oravec moved to Prague after the war, where he worked as a dentist and began to experiment with painting. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 he emigrated to Bern, Switzerland.

The Jewish Museum In Prague organized an exhibition of his work in 2001 entitled “A Painter of Soul.”

Vavro Oravec: Abstract Composition

VAVRO ORAVEC

(Born 1915, Tvrdošín, Slovakia)

Abstract Composition

Mixed Media on Wood Board

Signed Lower left

45 X 35 cm

Holocaust survivor Vavro Oravec did not become an artist until after the second world war. Born in the Slovakian town of Tvrdošín in 1915, Oravec studied medicine in Bratislava during the 1930s. After being prohibited from practicing medicine because he was Jewish, he worked with Jewish children who had been expelled from school. In 1944 he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, and then sent to the concentration camps at Gross Rosen and Blechhammer.

Oravec moved to Prague after the war, where he worked as a dentist and began to experiment with painting. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 he emigrated to Bern, Switzerland.

The Jewish Museum In Prague organized an exhibition of his work in 2001 entitled “A Painter of Soul.”

Reisen (Traveling) by Vinzenz Daxelhofer

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 architect, while painting in his free time.  Since 1972 he has dedicated himself primarily to painting, and today maintains a studio in Bern.

You can learn more about the artist on his own website:

http://www.daxart.ch/

VAVRO ORAVEC

(Born 1915, Tvrdošín, Slovakia)

Dancers

Mixed Media on Wood Board

Signed Lower Right

21 X 27 cm

Holocaust survivor Vavro Oravec did not become an artist until after the second world war. Born in the Slovakian town of Tvrdošín in 1915, Oravec studied medicine in Bratislava during the 1930s. After being prohibited from practicing medicine because he was Jewish, he worked with Jewish children who had been expelled from school. In 1944 he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, and then sent to the concentration camps at Gross Rosen and Blechhammer.

Oravec moved to Prague after the war, where he worked as a dentist and ban to experiment with painting. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 he emigrated to Bern, Switzerland.

The Jewish Museum In Prague organized an exhibition of his work in 2001 entitled “A Painter of Soul.”