Anja Decker, Anja Decker, Gemälde "italienische Landschaft mit Pferd", 1932, Oil on Canvas

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Anja Decker

1908 Berlin – 1995 Munich
Untitled [Italian Street Scene with Horse]
Oil over tempera sketches on canvas, mounted … Read more Anja Decker

1908 Berlin – 1995 Munich
Untitled [Italian Street Scene with Horse]
Oil over tempera sketches on canvas, mounted on foamboard with a few pinholes, framed
Signed and dated (1932) lower right (somewhat faded)
Size: 38 x 50.5 cm (unframed) or 51 x 63.3 cm (framed)
Provenance: Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich

An early expressive-realist work by this important and distinctive representative of Art Informel.

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Anja Decker
Painter, draughtswoman.

She spent her youth in Germany, Switzerland, and Crimea.

from 1928, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, ultimately becoming a master student of Olaf Gulbransson.

1929–38 Study trips to Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, England, Belgium, and repeatedly to Italy and France.

1938 Attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

from 1953 onward, "feverish exploration" (Bernd Dürr) and engagement with abstract painting.

Solo Exhibitions:

1958 Lausanne, Galerie l'Entreacte

1959–65 Galerie van de Loo

1989 (Retrospective)

1990, 1993, 1996 (Retrospective) Munich, Galerie Michael Pabst

Awards:

1961 Prize winner at the "Competition 1961" exhibition organized by the "Society of Friends of Young Art" at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

Collections:

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Florida, USA

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