Alfred Kohler, Abendlandschaft

Alfred Kohler, Abendlandschaft
Alfred Kohler, Evening Landscape
Hilly landscape with isolated trees bathed in warm tones, watercolour, mid-20th century, signed and illegibly dated at lower left "A Kohler ...", stamp on the back of the frame "Alfred Kohler 1916-1984 Werksverzeichnisnummer 854", framed under mount and behind glass, mount cut-out approx. 48 x 63 cm. Artist 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.