4117 - Richard Sachs, Landscape in the Vogtland

Richard Sachs, Landscape in the Vogtland A skilfully captured view, stretching from a hill covered with birch, conifers and other trees, towards a hilly, wooded landscape with sweeping meadows, beneath a slightly overcast sky; a slightly impasto landscape painting, oil on thick painting board, early 20th century, signed ‘Rich. Sachs”, signs of age, unframed, approx. 60 x 79.5 cm. Artist information: German landscape painter and designer (1875, Plauen - 1947, Jamlitz special camp near Lieberose), founder of the Sachs family of painters from the Vogtland region; until 1892, a pupil at the Royal School of Industry in Plauen (art school), followed by travels through Bavaria and Tyrol; worked for a time in Trento as a monastery painter; held his first solo exhibition in 1902; worked as a freelance artist in Jocketa from 1905, where he ran a studio specialising in decorative designs; member of the ‘Vogtland Painters’ Group’, from around 1934, assistant teacher at the Plauen School of Art and Crafts; submitted works to the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich in 1944; was interned in Bautzen from 1945 to 1947 and later at the Jamlitz special camp near Lieberose; worked in Jocketa; source: the artist’s family, Thieme-Becker, Dressler, Müller-Singer, Kalkoff, *Handbuch des Kunstmarktes: Art Directory for the German Reich …”, Flämig, “State School of Art and Textile Industry, Plauen/Vogtland” and Frank Weiß, “Painting in the Vogtland”.