Vincent Weber, "Nachleuchtende Sommergluht"
abstracted depiction of a group of trees in front of buildings and ...

Vincent Weber, "Nachleuchtende Sommergluht"
abstracted depiction of a group of trees in front of buildings and mountains, pastel crayons, signed lower right "Vincent Weber", signed, dated and titled on the reverse of the frame "Vincent Weber 1980 nachleuchtende Sommergluht", framed behind foil and under mount, mount cut-out approx. 23.5 x 29 cm. Artist info: Germ. Painter, glass painter and graphic artist (1902 Monschau [until 1918 Montjoie] until 1990 Frankfurt am Main), around 1912 already early encouragement by Adolf Hölzel, studied 1920-23 at the Bauhaus Weimar with Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer, afterwards study visits in Rome and Stuttgart, 1924 again student at the Bauhaus, 1925 one-year master studies with Adolf Hölzel at the Stuttgart Academy, 1926-28 freelance in Berlin, Paris, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Antwerp, artistic exchange with August von Brandis, 1929-30 assistant to Adolf Hölzel, 1931 study trip through East Asia, member of the Novembergruppe, the Rheinische Sezession, the Künstlergruppe Pforzheim and the Reichsverband bildender Künstler Deutschlands, 1934-41 teacher at the Werkkunstschule Stettin, then guest professor for Christian art at the Academy San Paolo in Rome and its director 1945-52, 1937 defamed in Germany as "degenerate" and banned from exhibiting until 1945, 1954-65 director of the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden, subsequently retired and freelance, now undertook study trips to South America and Africa, active in Wiesbaden , source: Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Dressler, Nagel "Schwäbisches Künstlerlexikon" and Wikipedia.