Fredo Bley, "Waldblumen und Pilze"
Still life with numerous forest mushrooms, in front of a vase with a ...

Fredo Bley, "Waldblumen und Pilze"
Still life with numerous forest mushrooms, in front of a vase with a colourful bouquet of flowers and a glass bottle, powerful painting with impasto application of paint, oil on plywood panel, signed and dated lower left "Fredo Bley (19)79", inscribed on panel reverse "Fredo Bley Buchwald/Vogtl. Gartenweg 7 "Waldblumen u. Pilze" (Original Ölmalerei) 1 x Schlußfirnissüberzug", slight traces of paint, framed, folding dimensions approx. 61 x 75.5 cm. Artist info: actually Fredo Robert Bley, Germ. Painter and graphic artist (1929 Mylau in the Vogtland until 2010 Reichenbach), 1943-46 together with Wolfgang Mattheuer trained as a lithographer with Carl Werner in Reichenbach, to avoid the obligation to work in the uranium mining of the Wismut, 1946-48 working as an agricultural and forestry worker in Thuringia, 1948-56 apprenticeship and work as a decorative and typeface painter, inspired by the painter Walter Löhner, largely self-taught, since 1952 member of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR, due to material constraints 1957-64 worked in parallel as a brickmaker and construction worker, from 1966 freelance, at the same time temporary work contract with the VEB Baumechanik Lengenfeld and until 1990 circle leader for painting in the "NEMA" Netzschkau, attended numerous exhibitions, among others 2002 in the new Federal Chancellery Berlin, worked in Mylau, from 1960 in his own home built in Buchwald, Source: AKL, Eisold "Künstler in der DDR", Frank Weiß "Malerei im Vogtland" and Wikipedia.