Original Signed Pencil drawing by famous artist Otto Klar
Medium Pencil on grey paper beautifully framed
Size 420mm x 200mm
Drawing is signed and dated by the artist
About the artist
Otto Klar was born in Vienna, Austria in 1908. He studied at the Vienna Acad of Arts. Klar exhibited in Vienna,Munich and Berlin before coming to South Africa in 1939. Klar settled in Pretoria, where he painted and taught art. He was interested in local landscape and Bantu figure subjects. In 1962 Otto Klar received an Honorary Professorship conferred on him by the President of Austria.Otto Klar was a painter of confirmed ability, but one who was vacillated in his commitment to aesthetic principles.Soon after his arrival in South Africa he established a reputation by demonstrating command of the oil techniques and skill in descriptive landscape, which were well received.Otto Klar was described as “A painter of energy and strength, he could hurl thunderbolts across his canvasses.His palette – black, white, golds, oranges and reds, suggest furnaces and molten metal. His knowledgeable brush
holds promise of powerful constructions, meteoric movement and dynamic clash of forces. Yet, repeatedly a powerful initial composition is reduced to banality by the imposition of forced literary images.He passed away in Pretoria in 1994 after making his mark in the South African art world.I do not have provenance on this specific work other than it comes from a large collection with provenance. All work is entered in the opinion of the owner, as being from the artist listed as signed on the piece ,but may also be deemed in the style of that artist, attributed to that artist or in the manner of the artist. It is being sold as purchased, acquired, consigned, inherited and you are accepting it as this , and that it is sold to you As IS.
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