GRAN ZEBRU PAINTED BY FRANZ JOSEPH BLASCHKE

 

FRANZ JOSEPH BLASCHKE (1916-1984)
Gran Zebru or Königspitze (3,851m- 12,635 ft)
Italy

In Königspitze (or Gran Zebru) South Tyrol, watercolor, Courtesy John Mitchell Gallery, London, 

The mountain
The Gran Zebru (3,851m- 12,635 ft) or Königspitze (in german ) is a mountain of the Ortler Alps on the border between South Tyrol and the Province of Sondrio, Italy. After Ortler, it is the second highest peak in the Ortler Alps, know to have been a important strategic place during World War I. The Gran Zebru forms the southeast end of this Dolomit Range. The Italian name Gran Zebru (Big Zebra) derives from Val Zebru and is etymologically unclear. It is thought an origin of the pre-Roman name Gimberu.
The mountain was first climbed (the date is controversial) on August 3, 1854, by Stephan Steinberger or 3 August 2864 by Tuckett, Buxton and the Biner Brothers. The mountain can be dangerous in warm weather, when the snow and ice can become unstable and particularly nowadays with the global warning melt of the permafrost. The worst day for climbing fatalities on the mountain occurred on August 5, 1997, when seven people were killed in two separate incidents. On June 23, 2013, six were killed, also in two separate incidents.

The painter
Son of a drawing teacher and an architect, Franz Josef Blaschke is in Bad Salzungen. After a successful training as a wood sculptor in Eslohe, he received a scholarship for a student at the State Sculpture School with Dell Antonio in 1937.
During the Second World War, the artist moved to France, then to Russia and Poland. 

After the war, he continued his art studies at the Düsseldorf Academy with Fritz Reusing (portrait) and Hermann Baptist Hundt (landscape painting) and became a pupil of Friedrich Vordemberge at the Cologne school after 1948.
Blaschke is today mostly known for his  landscapes, in which he explored the limits of form, often approaching abstraction. Its panoramas with striking graphic elements as well as its very colorful views have posed it among the successors of Oskar Kokoschka.
He produced sculptures in public space for the University Dental Clinic in Bonn, for the Gerling Group in Cologne and for an Insurance Company in Düsseldorf.
The artist has made himself known through commissions for portraits of famous German personalities such as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Willy Millowitsch, Claudia Doren and others .... Franz Josef Blaschke has always been attached to paint the psychiology of the characters rather than making a physical description similar or detailed.

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2020 - Wandering Vertexes...
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GRAN ZEBRU PAINTED BY EDWARD H. COMPTON

EDWARD H. COMPTON  (1861-1960)

 Gran Zebru or Königspitze  (3,851m- 12,635 ft)

Italy

Oil on canvas, 1905

The mountain 

The Gran Zebru (3,851m- 12,635 ft) or  Königspitze (in german ) is a mountain of the Ortler Alps on the border between South Tyrol and the Province of Sondrio, Italy. After Ortler, it is the second highest peak in the Ortler Alps, know to have been a important strategic place during World War I.  The Gran Zebru forms the southeast end of this Dolomit Range. The  Italian name Gran Zebru (Big Zebra) derives from Val Zebru and is etymologically unclear. It is thought an origin of the pre-Roman name  Gimberu.

The mountain was first climbed (the date is controversial) on August 3, 1854, by Stephan Steinberger or 3 August 2864 by Tuckett, Buxton and the Biner Brothers. 

The mountain can be dangerous in warm weather, when the snow and ice can become unstable and particularly nowadays with the global warning melt of the permafrost.  The worst day for climbing fatalities on the mountain occurred on August 5, 1997, when seven people were killed in two separate incidents. On June 23, 2013, six were killed, also in two separate incidents.

The Painter
Edward Harrison Compton (1881–1960) not to be confused with his father Edward Theodore Compton (1849-1921) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of English descent. Compton was born in Feldafing in Upper Bavaria, Germany, the second son of notable landscape painter Edward Theodore Compton. He received his early art training from his father, and after a period of study in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts settled back in Bavaria. Like his father he was inspired by the Alps to become a mountain painter ("bergmaller") working in both oils and watercolour. However, an attack of Polio at the age of 28 meant that he had to find more accessible landscapes to paint in Germany, England northern Italy and Sicily. He also provided illustrations for several travel books published by A & C Black. Compton exhibited at galleries in Munich and Berlin, and also in England at the Royal Academy in London and in Bradford. He died in Feldafing in 1960.
He had two sisters, both of whom were artists: Marion Compton, the flowers and still-life painter, and Dora Keel-Compton, flower and mountain painter
Source: 
- Wikipedia