4416 - Ludwig Gschosmann, "Coffee Scene in Kilchberg with a View of Lake Zurich"

Ludwig Gschosmann, "Coffee Scene in Kilchberg with a View of Lake Zurich" View of a terrace with people drinking coffee, framed on the left and right by trees, partly painted using the palette knife technique, oil on canvas, second half of the 20th century, signed lower left, titled and signed on the reverse of the canvas, canvas stamp ‘Viktoria Malleinen München’, remnants of an old gallery label on the stretcher, inner dimensions 80 x 100 cm. Artist information: also known as Ludwig Gschossmann, German landscape painter, draughtsman, Lüftl painter, craftsman, actor and set designer (1913, Munich - 1988, Tegernsee near Munich), moved to Hamburg in 1926 to live with his half-brother, where he completed an apprenticeship as a painter and as a decorative painter; further training as a set designer at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts; spent time in Lübeck on a scholarship in 1933, subsequently worked as a stage painter in Augsburg; from there, undertook painting and travelling expeditions through the Alps; initially a realist landscape painter, later increasingly inspired by Otto Pippel and becoming an Impressionist; worked in Tegernsee as a stage painter and actor for the ‘Ludwig-Thoma-Bühne’ in Rottach-Egern; worked with a Lüftl painter in Rottach-Egern and Tegernsee; where he met his future wife, Hannelie Töpfner, and moved to Tegernsee; served as a mountain infantryman during the Second World War; after 1945, worked as a freelancer for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation’s regional radio service and as a furniture designer for the “Bayerische Werkstätten”, undertook further training through evening classes at the Munich Academy; from 1950, undertook painting trips to Italy and France; exhibited at the ‘Große Deutsche Kunstausstellungen’ (Great German Art Exhibitions) at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich from 1938 to 1944, as well as at exhibitions in Germany, Austria, France, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the USA; worked in Tegernsee; source: information from his daughter Gritli Erhardt-Gschosmann, AKL, Saur’s ‘Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Encyclopaedia’, Bénézit, Bruckmann’s *Munich Painters of the 19th/20th Centuries* and Wikipedia.