3979 - Friedrich Reimann, Landscape near Zeulenroda

Friedrich Reimann, Landscape near Zeulenroda View from a hilltop into a wide valley, with a pond surrounded by lush meadows and wooded slopes, watercolour on light-weight cardboard, mid-20th century, signed ‘Reimann’ lower right, signs of wear, framed with a passe-partout and behind glass, passe-partout dimensions approx. 33 x 43 cm. Artist information: German porcelain, animal and landscape painter (1896 Mariaschein, Bohemia - 1991 Zeulenroda), resident in Zeulenroda from 1908, trained as a porcelain painter at the Schilde porcelain factory in Roschütz near Gera, 1912-15: apprenticeship as a decorative painter with court master painter Fritz Carol in Zeulenroda; 1915-17: evening classes with Prof. Hugo Händler in Berlin; 1917-18: served in the First World War with the 2nd Sailors’ Division; 1919: first art exhibition in Zeulenroda; 1920-22: studied at the Dresden Academy of Applied Arts under Carl Rade and P. Erich Zschiesche; from 1922 onwards, worked as a freelance artist; from 1935 onwards, regular hunting and study visits to Count Arnim-Boitzenburg in the Uckermark; exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition at the Haus der deutschen Kunst in Munich from 1938-44, 1942-46: military service and captivity; in the 1960s, he illustrated, amongst other works, Grzimek’s *Animal Life*; worked in Zeulenroda; Source: Frank Weiß, *Malerei im Vogtland*, Schamscha-Küpper and Wikipedia.