Expressionist Painting - Steam Train In A Snowy Landscape: Oil On Panel Signed

Maurice Vagh-Weinmann, born August 20, 1899 in Budapest and died in 1986, is a French painter of Hungarian origin.

Here is a beautiful oil on panel representing a man and his child walking in a snowy landscape against a backdrop of factory chimneys and a steam train which animate this beautiful composition.

Signed lower right, this painting is presented in a beautiful Montparnasse carved wooden frame.

Dimensions without frame: 46 x 38 centimeters Dimensions including frame: 63 x 55 centimeters

Biography:

Born in 1899 in Hungary, it was in 1914 that Maurice Vagh-Weinmann, then aged fifteen, turned to art and was admitted at the Budapest School of Applied Arts. he was a student of Tihamér Margitay (1859-1922) and Gyula Tornai (1861-1928)

He held his first exhibition in 1924 in collaboration with his brothers Elemer Vagh Weinmann (1906-1994) and Nandor Vagh Weinmann. (1897-1978). After his first successes as an artist, 1930-33, years when he exhibited in several salons and galleries including the Charpentier gallery in Paris, he returned in 1934 for a stay of a few months in Budapest.

The paintings created during this period can be compared to the Expressionists. He paints with a decided touch, using bold colors in a lighter tone than his two brothers. His works often refer to Hungarian themes, landscapes, scenes of peasant life, still lifes. He died at the age of 87 in 1986.