Post-Impressionist harbour scene was executed in 1963 by Swiss listed painter, glass painter, graphic artist Albert Hürth (Hans Lothar Albert, born 1902 in Zittau, died 1972 in Basel. On our last additiona photo you can see very similar harbour painting with signature exemple of the same painter. Albert Hürth (sec.Name Lothar Hans Albert ), Swiss painter, glass painter, graphic artist, *3.5.1902 Zittau/Saxony, †17.5.1972 Basel. Student: 1922/23 Academic Graph. Arts Leipzig, then further training as a painter in Paris. Citizen of Basel since 1928. – Created especially murals and stained glass windows, especially religious. Topics, as well as bookplates, illustrations and devotional images as woodcuts and lithographs. WORKS: Glass pictures: SCHWYZ-Dorf, Kerchel: Totentanz discs, 1926. OBERWIL-RISCH/Zug, parish: St. Verena, 1929; Tabernacle door, 1929 (design). ZEININGEN, 1930. FLUMS/St. Gallen, St. Justus: Cabinet discs, 1932. MUTTENZ, 1932. NIEDERBUCHSITEN. NEUENDORF/ Solothurn (both 1934). LUTERBACH. MÜNCHENSTEIN (both 1935). RED CROSS, 1938. IBACH/ Schwyz, St. Antonius Hermit, 1940/41. GERLIKON, chapel, 1947. TRIENGEN, 1950. – Murals: MARIASTEIN, monastery church, 1931-33. KAPPEL, baptismal chapel, 1934. TRIENGEN/Sursee: Laurentius window, 1936. KLEIN-HÜNINGEN, St. Christophorus, 1936. DIETWIL/Muri: St. Klaus, 1937/38. RED CROSS, 1938/39. IBACH: Way of the Cross, 1940. WALDKIRCH/St. Gallen, St. Blasius, 1942. – SCHÖNBRUNN/Zug, Catholic. Church: altarpiece, 1930.
Literature: Vollmer 1953; Bruckner, NSB 1938; Plüssl/ Tavel 1958-61. (Lit.); LZSK, 1981. – P. Hilber, Monats-Rosen 70:1926 (12) 481-486. KD Schweiz 2 (Schwyz II), 1957, 358; 5 (Zug I), 1934, 299, 305; 35 (Luzern IV), 1956, 480; 38 (Solothurn III), 1957, 358; 55 (Aargau V), 1967, 139; 65 (Schwyz, Neuausg. I, Tl. 1), 1978, 194, 198; Schnell, Kl. Kunstf. 680 (Flums) 1958, 12.
Inscription: signed lower left: A.Hürth and dated (19)63.
Technique:
Measurements: unframed (65 x 54 cm), framed (68,5 x 57,5 cm).
Condition: good. |