207 - Franz Huth, People by the Lake, pastel, framed

Franz Huth, People by the Lake, pastel, framed Franz Huth, 1876 Pößneck - 1970 Weimar, German painter. He is regarded, particularly in Thuringia, as one of the most significant pastel artists of the 20th century; here: people by a lake on a summer’s day, a delicate pastel, approx. 34 x 42 cm, signed and dated on the left 58, framed under glassAbout the artist: Following an apprenticeship (from 1892) in Volkstedt near Rudolstadt as a porcelain painter, Franz Huth began an apprenticeship as a glass painter in the Giant Mountains in 1894. He then began his studies at the School of Applied Arts in Dresden. Following an extended stay from 1897 to 1898 in Switzerland, the south of France and northern Italy, he visited the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin in 1900. From 1903, he worked for several years in Heidelberg for the local branch of his father’s porcelain manufactory. From 1911 to 1918, he lived and worked as a freelance artist in various cities: Cuxhaven, Heidelberg, Rome and Darmstadt. During this time, pastel painting increasingly took centre stage. In 1918, he took up residence in Bensheim on the Bergstraße. Later, in the GDR, he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. Huth’s paintings can be found inter alia at the Goethe Museum in Frankfurt am Main, the Pößneck Town Museum, the Saalfeld Town Museum in the Franciscan monastery, and the Weimar Town Museum.