Description

Kurt Peiser Framed Etching Double Signed and Penciled Title

Item on sale is a unique work, probably a proof etching

Signed in the plate and pencil hand signed – pencil titled ‘ Entrée d’impasse’

Wooden frame : 26.5 x 21 cm

Passe-partout : 25 x 19cm

Etching : 17 x 12 cm

Kurt Peiser was an Antwerp artist of German origin. He was born in Antwerp in 1887 and died in Uccle (Brussels) in 1962. He was a painter of great social and humanitarian concern. He was also a draughtsman, watercolorist, lithographer and etcher. His style is realistic with impressionist and expressionist touch. Educated at the Academy of Antwerp. Proficient under Gerard Jacobs in painting seascapes and river scenes. Debuted with sea and Scheldt views, but the choice of his subjects was soon influenced by the prevailing social injustices and injustices in society. Realistically painted dockers at the Antwerp harbor, workers, women and children at work, folk types, homeless people, outcasts, prostitutes, scenes in night pubs, scenes with exhausted horses from the English coal mines, which arrived weekly in Antwerp to be slaughtered. Settled in Uccle, but often went to soak up the atmosphere of the working-class suburb called Marolles. In addition to his social, sometimes dramatic themes, however, he also painted luministic landscapes in a realistic style and gained great fame as an etcher.

Item is in absolute mint condition