Fredo Bley, Two expressive landscapes
including "Enge Gasse", the motif shows a narrow street lined with small ...

Fredo Bley, Two expressive landscapes
including "Enge Gasse", the motif shows a narrow street lined with small gabled half-timbered houses in the Vogtland, furthermore "Obermylau/Vogtl.", Fredo Bley set a lasting memorial to the village of Obermylau, the home of his childhood days, in numerous artistic works, he often referred to the motif as "village on the horizon", woodcut or linoleum print in black or brown on paper. Linocuts in black and brown on paper, each cut to the image and mounted on watercolour cardboard, each titled, inscribed as "original Holzschnitt [bzw.: Linolschnitt] (Handabzug)" and each signed and dated "Fredo Bley [19]75", slight signs of age, unframed, sheet dimensions approx. 48 x 36 cm each. 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 avoid the obligation to serve 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, stimulated 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.