1500 - Klaus Fußmann (1938, Velbert, Rhineland—works in Berlin and Gelting)

Klaus Fußmann (1938, Velbert, Rhineland—works in Berlin and Gelting) Evening Sky An early, powerful work from the 1970s by the artist, who finds most of the subjects for his atmospheric, ethereal watercolors in his adopted home of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1972, he moved into his painter’s paradise in Gelting on the Flensburg Fjord on the Baltic Sea. Fußmann studied from 1957 to 1966 at the Folkwang School in Essen and at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1972, he received the Villa Romana Prize and exhibited at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. From 1974 to 2005, he held a professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts. On the occasion of his 70th and 80th birthdays, comprehensive retrospectives were held, including at the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum at Gottorf Castle and the Barberini Museum in Potsdam. Watercolor on paper. 14.8 cm x 18.1 cm. Framed. Watercolor on paper.