Maurice Góth, Ada Mending Clothes, Oil, Signed

Maurice Góth (Hungary) 1873-1944 Ada mending Clothes Oil on canvas Signed 55 x 45 cm. With frame 71 x 61 cm. Maurice Góth (Avdo Hungary 1873-1944 Amsterdam) was a cosmopolitan. He was the son of a wealthy landowner who insisted on studying law, but during a stay in Munich in 1893 he finally decided to become an artist. He then attended the academies of Vienna, Paris and Bruges and traveled to the United States in 1913. At the start of the war he fled from Panne in Belgium to the neutral Netherlands and ended up in Middelburg and Domburg, where they ended up in the painters' colony of Jan Toorop. He drew and painted - also in watercolor - smooth, colorful beaches, harbors (Zealand), flowers, portraits, people, animals (horses) and landscapes in an impressionist style. His works are part of the collections of the Gemeentemuseum, the Centraal Museum and the Drents Museum.