1930's Garden Painting by Richard Kollorsz

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Oil on canvas California cottage garden scene in 1930.

Richard Franz Kollorsz was born on April 2, 1900, in the … more Oil on canvas California cottage garden scene in 1930.

Richard Franz Kollorsz was born on April 2, 1900, in the county of Ruckers, near Breslau, in German Silesia. His brother and his father were both painters. He studied at the Classical Gymnasium in Ruckers, and attended the Art Academy in Breslau. After World War I, he attended the Kunstakademie in Dresden for seven years and while there obtained first hand knowledge of traditional painting techniques and was influenced by the New Realism movement. He traveled to Rome on a scholarship and returned to Dresden where he entered the master class of Otto Dix, one of Germany's most important twentieth century painters and the leader of the New Realism movement. Kollorsz later directed this master class himself. less