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Michael Osterweil Berlin 1932
Lot-No. 674
Watercolour, 44 x 31 cm, lo. ri. sign. Osterweil, on a mount decorated by the artist, unframed. - German-American painter, who emigrated to the USA with his parents in 1934. In 1965 he opened the 'Neues Haus der Kunst' (New House of Art) in Hamburg, where among others Gerhard Richter had an early exhibition. After a long sojourn in Venezuela where he first began to illustrate books, he moved to New York a. lived in the legendary Chelsea Hotel for many years. Since the late 80s he created pictorial cycles for 'Alice in Wonderland', 'A Midsummernights Dream' a. 'One Thousand and One Nights'. He exhibited among others in London, New York, Paris, Hamburg a. Caracas
Michael Osterweil: Thisby
Thisby
Lot-No. 674
Watercolour, 44 x 31 cm, lo. ri. sign. Osterweil, on a mount decorated by the artist, unframed. - German-American painter, who emigrated to the USA with his parents in 1934. In 1965 he opened the 'Neues Haus der Kunst' (New House of Art) in Hamburg, where among others Gerhard Richter had an early exhibition. After a long sojourn in Venezuela where he first began to illustrate books, he moved to New York a. lived in the legendary Chelsea Hotel for many years. Since the late 80s he created pictorial cycles for 'Alice in Wonderland', 'A Midsummernights Dream' a. 'One Thousand and One Nights'. He exhibited among others in London, New York, Paris, Hamburg a. Caracas