4512 - Walter Strich-Chapell, "Albvorland"

Walter Strich-Chapell, "Albvorland" View from an elevated vantage point, past houses, into a vast, gently undulating mountain landscape; a landscape painting with a slight impasto effect in subdued colours; oil on hardboard; signed and dated ‘Strich [19]50”, on the reverse an old pre-printed exhibition label from the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart with partly illegible handwritten annotations: “To be affixed to the top right of the reverse of the painting - No.: 17 - Surname and first name: Walter Strich-Chapell - Full address: Sersheim … Vaihingen Enz - Title of the work: Albvorland - Medium: oil …” as well as a further handwritten label “Albvorland - Strich-Chapell”, slight signs of age, beautifully framed, inner dimensions approx. 75 x 90 cm. Artist information: German landscape painter and lithographer (1877 Stuttgart - 1960 Sersheim), trained as a decorative painter in Stuttgart, subsequently worked as a theatre painter at the Royal Residenztheater in Stuttgart; from 1895, studied concurrently at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts and trained as an art teacher, on the recommendation of Gustav Schönleber, studied on a scholarship at the Karlsruhe Academy under Robert Poetzelberger from 1897 and became a master student of Gustav Schönleber from 1900, whilst also studying printmaking under Hans Thoma, In 1901, he first became acquainted with Sersheim in the Ludwigsburg district, whilst also taking up lithography, In 1904, took part in a lithography competition organised by the Teubner publishing house in Leipzig; used the prize money to purchase a plot of land in Sersheim and build a house; became a resident of Sersheim near Bietigheim from 1907, 1915-17: served in the First World War; in 1917, granted leave to sort out Schönleber’s estate, 1923: travelled to Italy (Olevano) with Alexander Kanoldt; exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich from 1938 to 1944; also exhibited at exhibitions in Stuttgart and Bissingen; member of the Karlsruhe Artists’ Association, 1952 Appointed professor and in 1957 made an honorary citizen of Sersheim; Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur, *Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon*; Dressler and the internet.