Fredo Bley, "Bulgarian Peasant"
In 1976 Fredo Bley travelled to Sofia/Bulgaria with fellow artists on a study ...

Fredo Bley, "Bulgarian Peasant"
In 1976 Fredo Bley travelled to Sofia/Bulgaria with fellow artists on a study trip of the VBK at the invitation of the gallery "Strashiza", here he made the present portrait of an elderly man with a wide-brimmed sun hat, mixed media (watercolour over felt-tip pen) on watercolour cardboard, titled, place-named, dated and ligatured monogrammed ""Bulgarischer Bauer" - Strashiza, VII. 76.8. FB", slightly faded and yellowed, unframed, sheet dimensions approx. 48 x 36 cm. Artist info: actually Fredo Robert Bley, gt. 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 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.