Paul Strecker, Animated Landscape, Oil On Canvas

Paul STRECKER (1900-1950) Animated Landscape Oil on canvas, signed, dated on the back 1944 54 x 73.5cm Small restoration barely visible (see photo)

Paul Strecker was a German artist and writer who painted and designed opera and theater sets. Between 1919 and 1922, Strecker studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and then for two years at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In the summer of 1924, he spent an extended period in Rome studying the works of the great masters. Strecker moved to Paris in 1926 to work as a freelance painter until the Nazi occupation, when he fled to the south of France. In 1945, he returned to Germany, settling in Berlin. In 1946 he began working as a set designer for the Berlin State Opera and in the same year became a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and shortly thereafter became a full professor. Strecker was a member of the Berliner Neuen Gruppe.