Hermann Gradl
(1883-1964)
Landscape Marktheidenfeld
Original etching
Sheet size: 40 × 32 cm
Signed in the plate lower left, signed by hand on the right.
Biography
Hermann Gradl (1883 Marktheidenfeld - 1964 Nuremberg) is now considered one of the most important landscape painter of the 20th Century. His paintings are highly valued. Gradl was 1899 students in 1905-1907 to Munich Municipal Trade School teacher at the art school in Nuremberg. Since 1909, a landscape painter. Exhibitions since 1913-14 in the Munich Glass Palace, 1918 Exhibition in Nuremberg artist Leipzig, 1920 special issue on Velhagen & Klasing Gradl, 1924-1927 oil studies and drawings from the Rhine, 1933 Mediterranean cruise, 1937-1943 participation in the major art exhibitions at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, 1938 Takeover of the class of landscape painting. 1941 Director of the State School and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. 1949-1954 repeated numerous journeys through Germany, Italy Travel 1954, 1955 field trip to the Mosel and the opening of the first-Gradl exhibition after the war in the Otto-Richter-Hall, Wurzburg. On 15.2., His 81st Birthday, died Hermann Gradl. Literature: Thieme Becker, H. Bingold: "Hermann Gradl, a new German romantic painter"; H. Uhde-Bernays, "German Landscapes of H. Gradl, 1924, H. Gradl," The beautiful German South, 1936; catalog Memorial Exhibition Marktheidenfeld, 1983; Horst Bröstler "H. Gradl, the Romantic painters and landscape painter, 1989.)
