Franz Priking "abstract Landscape" Oil On Canvas 54x65

Franz PRIKING (1927-1979)
Oil on canvas 54x65 cm "Abstract landscape" circa 1965
Signed lower right
German born in 1927, Franz Priking studied at the Bauhaus in 1948, then at the Berlin Academy of Arts where he was a student of Max Pechstein, whose expressionism better suited his temperament. In 1950 he left Germany for Paris, where he stayed for a short time before settling in Provence. During his first French Exhibition in 1952 at the Musée Réattu in Arles, he met Picasso with whom he worked for a few months. After a cubist temptation, Franz Priking found his writing in an expressionist realism characterized by large black circles.
He had a short abstract period at the end of the 60s, of which the work we are presenting is part, before moving towards a very personal symbolism. He participated in numerous Salons and was the subject of personal exhibitions in French and European Galleries, where he met with great public and critical success.
Whatever the period, Priking's painting maintains a consistency in the very graphic writing, the generous paste, the dynamism and a strong chromatism.
Biblio: Benezit, Schurr ...
Unframed