Alfred Roth (1903-1998) The Circus, Swiss Modernist School, Art Deco

Oil on wood framed by a Montparnasse carved wooden frame. Signature lower left: Alfred Roth. All in very good condition.
Magnificent painting, a great construction and original framing in a beautiful Montparnasse frame.

Size of the painting: 55 x 46 cm (F.10)
Size with frame: 77 x 67 cm

Alfred Roth (1903-1998) born in Zurich, is a Swiss architect, designer, painter and university professor.
Roth is considered the most significant representative of the Neues Bauen (Bauhaus) movement and the spokesperson for modernism.
Alfred Roth is the son of a farmer and owner of a horsehair spinning mill, hence his interest in painting horses.
He studied architecture with Karl Moser at the ETH in Zurich (1922-1926), before completing an internship in the Parisian studio of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret (1926-1928).
From 1949, he was a visiting professor at George Washington University in Saint Louis (Missouri) and, in 1953, at Harvard, from 1957 to 1971, he taught at the ETH in Zurich.
As an artist and cultural ambassador (lecturer, author), Alfred Roth devoted his entire life to defending the ideas of Neues Bauen. He was also a member of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM), an honorary member of various architectural associations and national academies of fine arts. The Technical University of Munich and the University Institute of Architecture in Venice awarded him honorary doctorates.

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