964 - Karl-Heinz Schmidt, surrealist forest landscape with two gliders between dead trees

Karl-Heinz Schmidt, surrealist forest landscape with two gliders between dead trees (born 1936 in Dresden), active in Leipzig, mixed media on hardboard, signed "KHSCHMIDT" lower left, a surrealist scene in a dark forest with dead trees under a yellow-green sky, between the trees a person flies with a white glider, on the left a second, blue glider, in the foreground on the right a small person looking up, good condition commensurate with age, slightly rubbed in places, image 71.5x87.5 cm (HxW), framed, frame rubbed, frame width 3 cm Karl-Heinz Schmidt was born in Dresden in 1936 and first completed an apprenticeship as a joiner in Hellerau. He studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden and at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and taught at Burg Giebichenstein from 1979. For Leipzig he created several works of architectural art, including in 1974 the enamel mural "Die Entwicklung des Flugwesens", measuring around 69 square metres, at the 66th primary school in Mockau-Nord and the relief "Mutter und Kind" in Grünau.