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.