Two LANDSCAPES

1910?. Watercolor. Double watercolor on the recto and the verso. In blue tones in a traditional style. Verso: Expressionist Mountain Landscape on one side and a more traditional landscape on the other that includes a lonely figure. Beautiful sensitive image. Signed lower right. Image: 13 ¾ x 21. Please request photos. This is an original watercolor not a book.After an apprenticeship as a decorator, he became a pupil of the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden and then studied at the Otto Gussmann Academy of art. From 1919 he lived in Dresden, where, alongside Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmueller, Otto Schubert and Lasar Segall, he co-founded the Dresdner Sezession group, a short-lived collaboration of German Expressionism. The works of this new generation of disillusioned artists placed a much greater emphasis on political and social reformation through pacifistic means, rather than adopting the nihilistic social criticism and cynicism of their Die Brücke predecessors. References Richard Stiller: Otto Lange. In: Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) 153 (1919), Nr. 3988, S. 706f. • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Hrsg.): Kunst im Aufbruch – Dresden 1918–1933. Dresden 1980. • Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen (Hrsg.): Mit Leidenschaft ins Holz gerissen. Der Dresdner Expressionist Otto Lange (1879–1944). Reutlingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-939775-26-3. • Claudia Schönjahn: Monumentale Graphik! Otto Lange (1879–1944); Leben und Werk; Werkverzeichnis seiner Druckgraphik Petersberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86568-982-5