4098 - Manfred Leibl, Portrait of a Girl with a Tiger’s Head

Manfred Leibl, Portrait of a Girl with a Tiger’s Head An impressive large-format head portrait of a young, dark-haired, striking beauty, above which is a powerful portrait of a tiger’s head gazing at the viewer, set against a dark background; painted in a fine glazing technique, oil on panel, signed ‘M. Leibl’ lower right and dated ‘1981’ (concealed by the fold), mounted behind a passe-partout in the original artist’s frame, passe-partout dimensions approx. 100 x 70 cm. Artist’s biography: German painter, watercolourist, draughtsman and restorer (born in 1945 in Asch-Nassengrub [Aš-Mokřiny]), spent his childhood and attended school in Schwarzenbach/Saale from 1951 to 1960, 1960-64: apprenticeship as a painter and varnisher at Bernhard Lottes in Schwarzenbach; 1965-72: worked as a painter and fine artist at Ernst Hägili in Zurich, Switzerland; 1973-90: painter and fine artist at Peininger in Essen; 1991-95: painter and varnisher in Falkenstein/Vogtland; 1996-2007: worked as a freelance painter, fine artist and restorer in Auerbach/Vogtland; self-taught artist; undertook study trips to North and South Africa and the Balkans; based in Auerbach in the Vogtland region, Source: Information provided by the artist, *Auerbacher Stadtanzeiger* 13/2015 and Bernd Appel in the *Freie Presse* of 24 September 2020.