1958 Hans Orlowski grote ingekleurde lino houtsnede woodcut 'Gruss aus Gent'
Originele authentieke woodcut, houtgravure Farbholzschnitt van Hans Otto Orlowski
(1894 - 1967) Germany
Woodcut artist and painter.
Gesigneerd en getiteld in potlood onder de plaat: 'Gruss aus Gent, Hernn Phi... zugeeignet' gededicaceerd August 1959
In originele en goede staat cfr leeftijd, frisse kleuren
niet gekaderd, op handgeschept papier, 66,50 x 50 cm
Gent, Gand, Ghent

Between 1911 and 1915 he undertook his artistic studies with Harold Bengen at the Training Academy of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. His studies were interrupted by the First World War (1914-1918). He produced his first linocuts in 1915 and his first woodcuts in 1916. He returned to art school in 1918, now studying under Philipp Franck, and obtaining his degree in 1919. In 1918 he was part of the Berlin Secession, an association of "alternative" artists.
Between 1921 and 1945 Orlowski taught at the Decorative Arts Academy at the Charlottenburg site, acquired through a merger of two arts training institutions in 1924. He was appointed a to a professorship in 1931. During these years he also created numerous woodcut images and illustrations. In 1924 he undertook a trip to Paris and turned away from Expressionism, to the point of personally destroying more than sixty of the paintings he had produced between 1920 and 1924. In 1934 Orlowski's first solo exhibition was presented at the Fritz Gurlitt gallery
During the Second World War his workshop in the academy was bombed out: all the woodblocks and 65 paintings were destroyed. 1945 was also the year in which the war ended, and he started teaching a course on murals and stained glass at the Berlin University of the Arts. Exhibitions in Munich, Linz and Würzburg followed. His last exhibition was held in Berlin in 1964
Gravure sur bois par Hans Otto Orlowski (1894 - 1967) Artiste et peintre allemand