Charles Greyenbühl (1900-1962) View Of An Alsatian Village From The Forest | Vosges Otrott Rosheim

Charles GREYENBÜHL (Otrott, 1900- Rosheim, 1962)
View of a village in Alsace from the forest
Oil on canvas signed lower right

46.5 x 38.5 cm | 53 x 45 cm with the frame

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Charles Greyenbühl was a marquetry artist, sculptor and painter. Coming from a family of foresters, after leaving primary school, he worked at Charles Spindler in Saint-Léonard to learn the marquetry trade. Then, from the autumn of 1919 until 1924, he attended the École des Arts décoratifs in Strasbourg, from which he obtained a diploma. His teachers included Cammissar and Daubner. He practiced both oil painting and watercolour. Having acquired a small printing press in 1935; he did wood engraving, sometimes also on copper. His favourite themes were Mont Sainte-Odile, Ottrott, the forest and the castles of the Vosges. In particular, he published monthly original woodcuts dedicated to Alsace, which earned him a certain success. Ten of them represent Strasbourg, Geispolsheim, Hohwald, Obersteigen, Rothbach, fifteen others Mont Sainte-Odile and its surroundings (Engravings, Alsatian landscapes by Ch. Greyenbühl., 1946, at the National and University Library of Strasbourg). He also illustrated works such as "Klingenthal and the royal manufacture of bladed weapons", by F. Koritke. (Sources: New Dictionary of Alsatian Biography; François LOTZ, Alsatian Artists-Painters of Yesteryear and of Naguère 1880-1982)

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