Fredo Bley, "Flieder und Citronen"
Blooming white bouquet of lilacs in an earthen handle pot and four lemons ...

Fredo Bley, "Flieder und Citronen"
Blooming white bouquet of lilacs in an earthen handle pot and four lemons, powerful, lively still life painting with impasto application of paint, oil on plywood panel, monogrammed and dated "FB (19)73" lower right, titled and inscribed on the reverse of the panel "- Flieder u. Flieder u. Citronen - Original-Ölmalerei 1973 Format 71,5 x 70,5 (no final varnish) Fredo Bley Buchwald/Vogtland", frame inscribed on the reverse "Fredo Bley Bez. K.-M.-St. 9801 Buchwald/Vogtland VBKD. DDR", slight cracks, in a simple wooden frame, folding dimensions ca. 71,5 x 70,5 cm. Artist's 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 lithographer with Carl Werner in Reichenbach, to avoid the obligation to work in the uranium mining of the Wismut, 1946-48 working as agricultural and forestry worker in Thuringia, 1948-56 apprenticeship and work as decorative and lettering painter, inspired by the painter Walter Löhner, mostly 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.