Woman at a Table by Swiss Artist Gustav Stettler
Gustav Stettler
Woman at a Table
A woman with a somber expression sits at a nearly bare table. Engraved during WWII a time of food rationing
Numbered 125/117 – Signed and dated [19]44
Image size 19 x 10.5 cm / Sheet size 23 x 30 cm
Gustav Stettler
Born 1913 in Oberdiessbach, Canton Bern - Died in 2005
The painter and engraver Gustav Stettler taught art in Basel and was a co-founder of the Basel Artists Association known as "Kreis 48" whose artists were known for the existential themes in their work. He is one of the group of artists in Basel known as the "Basler Graumaler" - Gray Painters of Basel.
