4570 - Ehrenfried Viola, Four Mixed Media Works

Ehrenfried Viola, Four Mixed Media Works amorphous material collages in muted, dark tones, highly sculptural mixed media works (applied fabric, pieces of glass, wooden sticks and other objects with filler or heavily impastoed paint) on painting board or canvas, each signed ‘Ehrenfried’ in the lower right-hand corner and dated ‘[19]61’ or ‘[19]63”, one titled “Relikt” on the reverse, some additionally inscribed on the reverse by the artist as “Ehrenfried Viola Berlin” and dated, with arrows pointing to the top edge of the picture; one with a fragmentary label bearing the address “Ehrenfried Viola, Berlin-Neukölln, [N]iemetzstr. 18”, varying degrees of age-related wear; each mounted in a simple wooden frame; maximum dimensions approx. 60 x 80 cm. Artist’s biography: German painter, graphic artist, draughtsman, collage artist and ceramist (1917, Königshütte - 2009, Berlin), trained as a pattern draughtsman, studied at the Berlin University of the Arts under Fritz Burmann and Franz Lenk; initially a naturalistic animal painter and draughtsman with a focus on ornithology, he moved via Cubist tendencies towards Art Informel and finally to an at times surrealist form of expressive realism, Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts; friend of Wols (Wolfgang Schulz); worked in Berlin-Neukölln; source: Vollmer and the internet.