Hermann Schmidt-Schmied, La Fresneda, 1970, Oil Painting on Canvas, Framed

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Hermann Schmidt-Schmied

1924 Mainz-Gonsenheim – 2010 Mainz

"La Fresneda"
Oil over light preliminary drawings in pencil/charcoal, on canvas, framed
Signed … Read more Hermann Schmidt-Schmied

1924 Mainz-Gonsenheim – 2010 Mainz

"La Fresneda"
Oil over light preliminary drawings in pencil/charcoal, on canvas, framed
Signed and dated (1970) lower right, signed and dated again on the reverse of the canvas
Size: 70.5 x 100.8 cm (without frame) or 76 x 106 cm (with frame)

The painting was likely part of the solo exhibition at the Institut français (Schörnborner Hof), Mainz, December 5–19, 1970. It appears in the exhibition catalog as either No. 13 or 18, both titled "La Fresneda."

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Hermann Schmidt-Schmied

Painter, draftsman.

Initially apprenticed as a blacksmith and auto mechanic.

from 1946 to 1953, he studied at the Mainz School of Art (under Karlo Kuhl and Peter Paul Etz).

In 1954, together with Ferrenc (Feri) Varga (1906–1989) and Jo Brenneis (1910–1994), he traveled to southern France. Through Varga, he also met Pablo Picasso.

from 1955 to 1958, he studied archaeology at the École Antique in Nîmes.

In 1958, he founded the painting school "Atelier du Midi" in Arles.

The artist lived in the southern French town of Saint-Jean-de-Buèges and in Mainz-Gonsenheim.























\. Awards:
Federal Cross of Merit
Academic Palms

Exhibitions:

1955 (with Jo Brenneis), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

1965, 1970, 1979 Institut français, Mainz

1988, 1990 Mainz-Gonsenheim Town Hall

1989 Galerie jottwedee, Gau-Bischofsheim

2014 (with sculptures by Inge Blum), Mainzer Kunst Galerie, Mainz

2022 Gonsenheim Museum

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