Fredo Bley, "Landschaft im Erzgebirge"
Surrounded by ploughed fields, forest workers' and farmers' houses in the ...

Fredo Bley, "Landschaft im Erzgebirge"
Surrounded by ploughed fields, forest workers' and farmers' houses in the wooded hilly landscape of the Erzgebirge, impasto landscape painting in powerful colourfulness, oil on plywood panel, signed lower right "Fredo Bley (19)80", inscribed on the reverse of the painting "- Landschaft im Erzgebirge - (Original-Ölmalerei) Malgrund Sperrholz 1 x Schlußfirnis Fredo Bley Buchwald/Vogtl.", in the lower left corner a few white paint splashes, framed, folded dimensions approx. 100 x 100 cm. Artist info: actually Fredo Robert Bley, German painter and graphic artist. 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 mine of Wismut, 1946-48 worked as an agricultural and forestry worker in Thuringia, 1948-56 apprenticeship and work as a decorative and lettering 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.