Lot 431: * Zwiebel (Alfred, 1914-2005). Jardin potager à

* Zwiebel (Alfred, 1914-2005). Jardin potager à l'Hermitage, Pontoise, oil on canvas mounted on board, monogram to lower right corner, 61 x 50.5cm (24 x 19.5ins), gilt moulded frame. This painting is a copy after Camille Pissarro's view of the vegetable garden at the Hermitage originally painted in 1879, which is held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Alfred Zwiebel (1914-2005) was a self-taught landscape, floral and still life artist. He was born in Fuerth, Germany, but grew up in the nearby city of Bamberg. Soon after the Nazis came to power, Zwiebel left Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1935, settling first in Milwaukee and then in New York City, where he married and had a daughter. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and became a U.S. citizen in 1944. He loved the work of many artists and schools of painting, but felt the deepest affinity for the Impressionists, by whom he was also most strongly influenced. By the 1960s, he was able to devote himself to painting full-time. Over the next four decades, he exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Canada, England, Austria, and his native Germany, where he received particular critical acclaim. (1)
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