Fredo Bley, "Bauernhof in Foschenroda"
View between trees of a half-timbered house in the Vogtland region near ...

Fredo Bley, "Bauernhof in Foschenroda"
View between trees of a half-timbered house in the Vogtland region near Netzschkau, grease pencil drawing in black and violet on watercolour cardboard, place name, signed and dated "Foschenroda - Fredo Bley [19]79", slightly yellowed and unfresh, unframed, sheet dimensions approx. 36 x 48 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 lithographers with Carl Werner in Reichenbach, in order to escape the obligation to serve 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.