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Title:WOLO TRUTZSCHLER Olvera Street Caricature Artist Charcoal Portrait of Lady 1932

Description:Wolo Trutzschler (1902-1989). Original Charcoal Caricature of a Woman, 1932, done on Olvera Street where the artist painted caricatures of many famous people and assisted David Siqueiros with a mural. This Portrait Caricature of a Woman could possibly be the artist Betty Miller per the paper on the back but it is unknown who the sitter is for sure. Image sight size is: 6-1/2" x 6-1/2" charcoal on paper (framed size: 12-1/2" x 12-1/2") signed lower left: Wolo Caricature 27 Olvera Street with a cute little face on an art stand. Also signed Wolo to the right of the figure's neck. Appears to have been reframed over the years. Condition: Viewed through glass appears to have some very slight wrinkle, a little loose in the frame.
Born in Berlin, Germany on July 24, 1902 of noble birth, Baron Wolff Erhardt Anton Georg Trutzschler von Falkenstein became known as Wolo due to his little sister's difficulty with his name. He was educated in Switzerland at an agricultural college. From there, he came to the U.S. in 1922 as an exchange student at the University of Wisconsin. In 1927 he moved to Los Angeles and, as a self-taught artist, established a studio on Olvera Street. (One of his customers there was ventriloquist Edgar Bergen who paid him five dollars to draw a stupid-looking hayseed. This drawing became dummy Mortimer Snerd.) In 1932, he assisted David Siqueiros with the Olvera Street mural, Am?rica Tropical
Wolo then moved to San Francisco where he worked for many years as a caricaturist-columnist for the Chronicle. He wrote and illustrated five children's books, painted murals in the San Francisco Bay area, and was well known as a puppeteer.
Wolo died in San Francisco on May 8, 1989.
Exh: Federal Art Project, LACMA, 1935; Zeitlin Gallery (LA), 1936; Stendahl Gallery (LA), 1936.
Murals: Palo Alto Hospital; Children's Hospital (SF); Brookside Hosptial (San Pablo); New Pisa Restaurant (SF).

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WOLO TRUTZSCHLER Olvera Street Caricature Artist Charcoal Portrait of Lady 1932

Name: WOLO TRUTZSCHLER Olvera Street Caricature Artist Charcoal Portrait of Lady 1932
SKU: 236419574
Price: 100 USD
Availability: InStock