Germany, Siegfrid Solomon Alweiss Dit Alva, Oil On Cardboard, Abstraction, Judaica.

Original composition by Alva, signed lower left. The work measures 45.7 X 60.8 cm Either a 12P format Work from the 1950s. The painting has gaps on the edge that can easily be concealed by a frame (Standard format 12P). Sending possible to France and the whole world with tracking and insurance. Postage on request (colissimo, mondial relay, DHl rates...in effect) Alva (Solomon Siegfried Allweiss) (1901–1973) Probably due to the different environments in which Alva lived - Galicia, Berlin, Paris, the Middle East and eventually London - he was familiar with a wide range of artistic influences and moved easily between different styles. His works include an illustrated and decorated version of the first chapter of Genesis, a series of studies of the Prophets in lithography, and oil paintings on several subjects of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Some of his paintings, like the one shown here, are Symbolist. Characteristic of his style is the use of distinctive brushstrokes and an aerial perspective. Solomon Siegfried Allweiss was born in Berlin in 1901 but grew up until the age of 10 in Galicia, where he received a strict Jewish upbringing. He studied music in Berlin before switching to art and adopting the pseudonym of Alva in 1925. He traveled extensively in the Middle East and spent five years studying art and painting in Paris before emigrating in 1938 in England, where he would spend the rest of his life. . Alva occasionally contributed illustrations to Yiddish books published in London, notably the cover of YA Liski's volume of proletarian histories, Produktivizatsie (Productivization), published by Naroditski in 1937.