Fredo Bley, "Landscape in Summer"
A country road winding between fields and lined with poplars in a slightly ...

Fredo Bley, "Landscape in Summer"
A country road winding between fields and lined with poplars in a slightly hilly landscape under a breezy cloudy sky, landscape painting in bright colours, Watercolour over sparse preparatory drawing on paper, signed and dated lower left "Fredo Bley (19)77", inscribed on frame back "Original-Aquarell - Landschaft im Sommer - Fredo Bley Buchwald/Vogtland", minimally faded, framed behind glass, folding dimensions approx. 74 x 103 cm. Artist info: actually Fredo Robert Bley, German painter and graphic artist (1929). 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, in order 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 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.