Alfred Krenz - Linocut

Alfred Krenz -  Linocut “Basotho Churchgoers”

Title:     “Basotho Churchgoers”

Lino Print Dimensions: image 32 x 48 cm excluding frame

Frame Dimensions: 52. x 72 cm.

Artist Markings: Inscribed with the title “Basuto Churchgoers”, 'Lino print' and 'To Inge with love' in ink in the margin“

Alfred Krenz

Alfred Friedrich Franz Krenz was born on 3 May 1899 in Vienna, Austria. He moved to South Africa and settled in Cape Town in 1949.  It is said that “Krenz arrived in South Africa with a broad and colourful painting style which contained more than a suggestion of the influence of Gaguin. The most distinctive feature of Krenz’s painting is the individual colour range, followed closely by his broad and vigorous method of applying paint, usually with a palette knife.”  Alfred Krenz died in Cape Town in 1980.

The item is framed.

Recent market sales:

An Alfred Krenz Lino Print of the same size and subject matter sold at Strauss Fine Art Auctions on 26 September 2016 for the total amount of R7 026.00 (inclusive of buyer’s commissioner and VAT).