ARTIST: Oswald Eichinger (Germany, 1915 - ???)
TITLE: Still Life with Books and Letters
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 11 x 14 inches / 27 x 35 cm
FRAME SIZE: 18 x 21 inches / 45 x 53 cm
SIGNATURE: upper left
PROVENANCE: Wally Findlay Gallery, Chicago (has label on verso)
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Oswald Eichinger was born in 1915 and was predominantly influenced creatively by the 1930s growing up. The period of the 1930s is epitomised by the conflict between a number of political ideologies, including Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. In the Soviet Union, Stalin's government required urgent funds to implement the rapid industrialisation demanded by the first Five Year Plan. It initiated a secret plan to sell off treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including a preliminary list of two hundred and fifty irreplaceable paintings by the Old Masters, a number of which found their way to the collection of Andrew Mellon via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler.