Fredo Bley, Zwei Berglandschaften
Two alpine landscapes, probably student works from Fredo Bley's apprenticeship ...

Fredo Bley, Zwei Berglandschaften
Two alpine landscapes, probably student works from Fredo Bley's apprenticeship at the Lithographische Anstalt und Großdruckerei "Carl Werner" in Reichenbach im Vogtland, each oil on paper, each oil on paper, once titled "Bergkirche" on the passepartout and signed "Fredo Bley" on the lower right and on the reverse (partly hidden) again signed "Fredo Bley", in addition a summery mountain landscape with an alpine farmhouse, here indistinctly monogrammed "FB" on the lower right, partly craquelure, wavy ground and paint burst, each framed behind glass and passepartout, passepartout cut-outs approx. 21 x 13,5 cm and 17,5 x 12 cm. Artist 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 lithographers with Carl Werner in Reichenbach to avoid the obligation to serve in the uranium mining of 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, 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.