4378 - Hans Antlitz, Summer Landscape

Hans Antlitz, Summer Landscape A sweeping view of a late-summer mountain landscape bathed in the warm light of the evening sun; impasto landscape painting, oil on canvas, c. 1960, signed ‘H. Antlitz”, restored, framed in a beautiful gilded stucco frame, inner dimensions approx. 44.5 x 58.5 cm. Artist information: German landscape painter and sculptor (1902 Offenbach - 1978 Offenbach), 1917-19: student at the Hanau Drawing Academy under Schminke and Rudolf Koch; 1919-21: studied at the Hanau Technical College, where he was a student of sculpture under Karl Huber and of painting under Richard Throll; 1824-27: further training at the Academy in Rome and a pupil of E. Durig; from 1927: worked as a freelance artist in Offenbach; 1932-33: studied at the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main under Richard Scheibe and Hartwig; undertook study trips to France, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland; member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists; member of the ‘Künstler der Bachstraße’ artists’ colony in Offenbach; and member and, at times, a board member of the Offenbach Artists’ Association; worked in Offenbach, Source: AKL, Saur’s ‘Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Encyclopaedia’, Kürschner’s Graphic Artists’ Handbook 1967, Schweers and the internet.