Alphons Müller

Alphons Müller (1898-1955) – Wrath of the Wind - Oil Painting 1940 Switzerland

1940

Alphons (Alfons) Müller (Swiss, * 24.8.1898 Mitlödi, † 8.6.1955 Biel) ' Im Häfeli ' The small harbor at the Lake of Biel / Bienne in Switzerland • Oil on artist board, ca. 47 x 38 cm • Frame, ca. 54 x 45 cm • Signed bottom right Worldwide shipping for this object is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. Alphons Müller lived and worked in the watch industries in Biel/Bienne in Switzerland up to about 1933. He then decided to become a full-time artist and painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits/nudes in various styles up to his early death in 1955. Alphons Müller was the proverbial hardworking bohemian artist. He lived in a small cold room above a pup and often struggled to make ends meet. On one hand he would paint commercial views of local beauty spots - often of the Lake of Bienne. These paintings were generally executed using very thin paint layers (to make the expensive material last longer ...) in a very bright impressionist style. On the other hand, he would create intelligent, generous and deep reaching images - especially during the war. In the late thirties he meets his two loyal patrons, the baker Werner Gass and the pharmacist...

Gerhard Cohn Roemers (German, 1900 - 1965) Ponte Del Rialto in Venice • Oil on canvas, ca. 40 x 65 cm • Frame, ca. 57 x 82 cm • Signed and titled lower right corner Worldwide shipp...

A. J. Bennett (South African, fl. Early 20th century) Light and Shade • Oil on canvas artist board ca. 42.5 x 29.5 cm • Later frame ca. 53.5 x 41 cm Worldwide shipping for this ob...

Ralph Reuben/Ruben Stubbs (English, 1824-1879) Low Tide at Sunset • 19thC Oil on artist board (card) ca. 21 x 36.5 cm • Signed bottom right and verso Worldwide shipping for this ...

Rudolf Johann Weiss (Swiss, * 3.9.1846 Basel, † 17.4.1933 Biel) Die Twannbachgrotte/Twannbachschlucht bei Twann, Biel, Schweiz (= The Twannbach Cave/Twannbach Canyon by Douanne, Bie...

Ljuba Petrović (Serbian, 1928) Busy Winter Landscape • Oil on artist board / thick card • Alluminium frame ca. 35 x 77 cm • Visible image ca. 20.5 x 62.5 cm • Signed and dated lower right (19)73 • Good, untouched original condition Worldwide shipping for this object is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. Ljuba Petrović is a Serbian painter born in 1928 in Nis, ex Yugoslavia / now Serbia. Originally an agricultural worker, he later worked as a painter decorator and served as a town hall official in his native Nis. He went on to create frescos, wall paintings and small paintings, which after joining local exhibitions, he exhibited in 1973 in Geneva, Switzerland and in the eighties successfully in Paris, at the Salon International d'Art Naïf. Petrović is a typical representative of the Yugoslave naïve school of painting...

Sand Pit Hungarian American Oil Painting Workers Horses European Modernism 1928 WPA The board measure 10 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches. The work was painted in Hunga...

Colorful autumn landscape. 1979, oil on cardboard, 46,5x60 cm Based on reality, artist painted expressionistic landscapes in which he dramatized the expression of shapes and colors....

PEDESTRIANS Size: 35 x 30 cm (including frame) Oil on board A small yet very impactful modernist street scene composition, executed in oil onto board. This composition presents a b...

Street view. 2013. Cardboard, oil, 97x123 cm

Original painting on board/panel. Hand signed on front by the artist. Image size 19.25 x 23.25 inches. Frame may have some random scratches from storage. Artwork is in excellent ...

Substantial small painting of a Swiss Mountain village by Otto Hamel (German, 1866-1950). Signed "Otto Hamel" lower right. Presented in a giltwood frame. Image, 9.5"H x 13"L. A German Expressionist, Otto Hamel studied at the Royal Art School in Erfurt under Eduard von Hagen...