3999 - Emil Bartoschek, Abstraction

Emil Bartoschek, Abstraction A loose composition of multi-coloured areas and lines against an iridescent background; watercolour on paper, mid-20th century, signed ‘Emil Bartoschek’ in the bottom right-hand corner (blurred), mounted in a passe-partout and framed behind glass, sheet dimensions approx. 17 x 24 cm. Artist information: German painter (1899 Czuchow, Rybnik district/Upper Silesia - 1996 Waldbrunn/Westerwald), from 1914 apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Czerwionka, whilst also taking painting and drawing lessons, 1920-21: studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Johannes Itten, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky; from 1921, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Applied Arts in Breslau, where he was a master student of Otto Mueller and Oskar Moll; from 1925, worked as a freelance artist in Breslau and shared a studio with Alexander Camaro, In 1937, he moved to Berlin; in 1942, his Berlin studio was destroyed along with a large part of his life’s work, and he retired to the country house in the Schorfheide near Groß-Schönebeck, which he had purchased in 1939; in 1945, he moved to Grevenbrück, in 1947, he became a member of the Hagenring Artists’ Association in Hagen; in 1951, he moved to Cologne and in 1965 to Waldbrunn. Source: Internet.