Striking expressionist gouache. Farmhouse with a Red Roof.

The Swiss artist Leo Deck (1908 – 1997)worked in the region of central Switzerland around Bern. He is known for his colorful landscapes in an expressionist style.

Walter Krebs
(March 17, 1900 Starrkirch (Solothurn) -
April 10, 1965 Bern)
Swiss Artist Walter Krebs is known for his large format biblical and reglious images and stark alpine landscapes.  He lived a solitary life, dedicated to his work, which has a powerful expressionist quality.
In this fascinating watercolor Krebs depicts a little known episode in WWII history.
After the [...]

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.

Woodcut Posthumously Printed from the Original Woodcuts and Artist’s Paper Stock. Limited Edition of 70.
Scherer was a founding member of the “Rot-Blau” group that formed around Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Davos in the early 20th Century and is considered one of the leading sculptors of the expressionist movement.