Alfred Russo 1868-1959
Country Barn
etching on paper
10 x 15
(lower right): 'Alfred Russo'
1988-3
@Alfred Russo estate
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery
This traditional, intricately executed landscape scene depicting a country barn on a windy day shows Alfred Russo’s skill as an etcher. As with a number of fellow émigré art restorers,...
This traditional, intricately executed landscape scene depicting a country barn on a windy day shows Alfred Russo’s skill as an etcher. As with a number of fellow émigré art restorers, both those who had been affiliated to art institutions or had freelance careers in pre-Nazi occupied Austria, Russo also worked as an artist in postwar England. The survey exhibition Kunst im Exil in Grossbritannien 1933-45 held in West Berlin in 1986 (and then in revised format at the Camden Art Centre) featured paintings by a number of ‘artist restorers’, including Russo, and his Viennese colleagues, Sebastien Isepp, Gerhart Frankl and Erich Wagner.
Provenance
presented by Mrs. N. Campbell 1987Literature
Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 147.2
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