146 - Leo Steck (Davos 1883–1960 Bern), “The Lamentation of Christ,” 1929, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 130 x 97 cm, a large-format painting in the vividly colored, neoclassical figurative style that Steck had been pursuing since the early 1920s and in which the art of the Nabis (Ranson, Denis) still had an influence; mounted on a simple wooden frame; overall dimensions: 135 x 102 cm. Limit 450,-

Leo Steck (Davos 1883–1960 Bern), “The Lamentation of Christ,” 1929, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 130 x 97 cm, a large-format painting in the vividly colored, neoclassical figurative style that Steck had been pursuing since the early 1920s and in which the art of the Nabis (Ranson, Denis) still had an influence; mounted on a simple wooden frame; overall dimensions: 135 x 102 cm. Limit 450,- >> Swiss painter, stained-glass artist, writer, and zoologist; studied zoology at the universities of Bern, Neuchâtel, and Montpellier beginning in 1903; Ph.D. from Bern in 1907; self-taught artist; moved to Paris in 1908 and attended the Académie Julian; earned his living as a travel writer; traveled through France, Spain, and Russia from 1911 to 1913; returned to Bern in 1914; converted to Catholicism in 1926; lived in Paris from 1920 to 1930; returned to Switzerland in 1931, where he created over 125 stained-glass windows for churches in the city and region of Bern; taught at the Bern School of Applied Arts.