4588 - Christian Lüttich, A Pair of City Views

Christian Lüttich, A Pair of City Views A pair of city views, one from a bird’s-eye view and the other seen from an alleyway; according to the consignor, these are views of Weimar; in the case of the landscape-format picture, it could be the steeple of St Peter and Paul’s Church; these are Lüttich’s characteristic colourful compositions with dynamically arranged, geometrically suggestive contours, mixed media on painting board; the landscape-format work is signed ‘Lüttich’ and dated ‘2011’ in the bottom left-hand corner; on the reverse, each bears a label from a Gera-based framing shop as well as a personal handwritten dedication from the shop owner; mounted in white wooden frames, Inner dimensions approx. 48.5 x 59 and 72.5 x 55 cm respectively. Artist’s biography: German painter and graphic artist (1934, Weimar - 2011, Gera), apprenticed as a bookbinder from 1949 to 1952; from 1952, studied commercial art in Magdeburg, Erfurt and Leipzig; initially worked as a commercial artist; from 1964, a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and a freelance artist, focusing on drawing, collage, watercolour and architectural art; from 1976, head of a creative circle at the Haus des Lehrers in Gera; also known as the ‘Roof Painter of Gera’ due to his focus on architectural motifs in his paintings; solo exhibitions in numerous towns in Thuringia; and has also taken part in exhibitions in France, Finland and the USA; the gallery at the Moritz Clinic in Bad Klosterlausnitz dedicated an exhibition to the artist in 2017/18; source: Eisold and OTZ, 15 November 2018.