Robert Franz Curry, Verschneites Birkenwäldchen
wintery, deeply snow-covered forest path through a light, quiet ...

Robert Franz Curry, Verschneites Birkenwäldchen
wintery, deeply snow-covered forest path through a light, quiet birch grove, atmospheric, little impasto landscape painting with varied brush lettering, oil on canvas, 1st half 20th cent, signed "R. F. Curry" lower left, scratch with loss of painting layer in the centre of the picture, somewhat in need of cleaning, framed, folding dimensions approx. 60.5 x 77.5 cm. Artist info: German -us-American landscape, portrait and animal painter (1872 Boston Massachusetts to 1955 Riederau am Ammersee), studied at Harvard University Cambridge, from 1891 in Stuttgart studied architecture, later turned to painting, studied from 1893 at the Munich Academy under Karl von Marr, Heinrich Knirr, Alexander von Liezen-Mayer and Ludwig von Löfftz, in 1898 large silver medal from the Munich Academy, initially specialising in depictions of dogs, undertook study trips to Switzerland and Italy, study visits to the mountains of Upper Bavaria, attends the exhibitions of the Munich Glaspalast and the Great German Art Exhibitions in the Haus der Kunst Munich, but also exhibitions in Augsburg, Berlin, Dresden, Nuremberg, Mannheim, in France, Switzerland and the USA, initially in Munich until 1906, 1906-30 in Grafrath and 1930-38 in Oberstdorf, 1938-44 in Munich, from 1944 resident in Riederau am Ammersee, was a popular portraitist and painter of the Upper Bavarian mountains, 1951 gold medal in Florida, member of the Munich Artists' Association and the General German Art Association , source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", AKL, Bruckmann "Münchner Maler des 19./20th century", Dressler, Matrikel der Akademie München and article of the Allgäuer Zeitung from 10.02.2007.