Autumn landscape at Baia Mare

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Weith László

Autumn landscape at Baia Mare

oil, canvas, 79 x 64 cm

Although in the interwar period, most of the landscapes were of post-impressionist inspiration, there are also works by many artists that remain closer to Impressionism, as can be observed in Weith's landscape.

The work is just as traditionalist as others from the era ,both from a formal perspective and from the way the subject is treated. The landscape is not only a visual pretext for the creation of shape and color, but the artist even intends for the viewer to recognize the place, rendering monuments from Baia Mare, such as the baroque church with two towers, the Holy Trinity, founded by the Jesuits.

The fragmented and distinctive brushstrokes and the juxtapositions of colors that do not necessarily meet as such on the objects that are represented are the clearest links with Impressionism ...

... but also the way of rendering a landscape in which the whole foreground is occupied by the branches of a tree, through which it can be seen in the background. This landscape structure became popular in the Impressionist period because of the influence of Japanese prints.

The painter Weith László, a member of the Colony of Artists from Baia Mare, studied exclusively at the Free Painting School of Baia Mare, where he enrolled as a young man, at the age of 13, in 1927. In the background of the autumn landscape, appears the image of the city of Baia Mare with the emblematic towers.

Weith László

Autumn landscape at Baia Mare

oil, canvas, 79 x 64 cm

  • signed at the bottom left with black:

    Weith L.

  • on the back:

    1. the auction label from Quadro Gallery

    2. DJC Cluj stamp

  • Condition of the work:

    good

  • Documents:

    - an expert report prepared by Sebestyén Székely, from 01.08.2018

Weith László

Weith László

1914, Valea lui Mihai, Bihor County - 1973, Baia Mare

Born in a family of railway workers, he chose to be a passenger on the train of his life and be(come) a painter.

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