Alfred Kohler, Sommerliche Landschaft
Hilly landscape with isolated trees under a yellow sky, landscape painting ...

Alfred Kohler, Sommerliche Landschaft
Hilly landscape with isolated trees under a yellow sky, landscape painting in warm, luminous colours, watercolour, c. 1970-80, faded signature "Kohler" difficult to see at lower right, framed under passepartout and behind plexiglass, passepartout cut-out c. 44 x 59 cm. Artist's info: Germ. Painter, mosaic designer and glass window designer (1916 Schwabach to 1984 Schwabach-Unterreichenbach), 1933-35 studied at the Staatsschule für angewandte Kunst (Kunstgewerbeschule) Nuremberg under Hans Werthner and Hermann Gradl, 1935-37 studied at the Academy Munich under Carl Caspar, 1938 returned to Schwabach, from 1938 ostracised as "degenerate" and banned from selling 1938-45, 1941 destruction of Schwabach studio by air raid, after 1945 founding member of the artists' association "Der Kreis" and the Schutzvereinigung Bildender Künstler, Member of the artist group "Die Hütte", 1949 founding member of the "Künstlerhilfe", 1959 working as art teacher in Nuremberg, from 1960 bohemian life with changing working stays, 1974-75 working in Paris, 1975 return to Nuremberg and from 1981 resident in Schwabach, attended exhibitions in Nuremberg, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Bologna, represented in the collections of the Louvre Paris, the Neue Pinakothek and the Städtische Galerie Munich as well as in the MoMA New York, Source: Wikipedia and article "Even the Louvre bought his paintings" by Friedrich Seyferth.