Countryside Landscape Painting, Oil on Wood, Mid-20th Century, Framed
By Christian Zwahlen
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Golden wooden frame 53 x 44.5 x 2.5 cm
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Kurt Conrad LoewCountry Landscape in Summer Mid-20th Century, FramedCirca 1950
Circa 1950
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Summer Fields – Modernist Countryside Landscape by Kurt Conrad Loew
Dimensions with frame : 63 x 71.5 x 4.5 cm - Oil on panel.
Signed K.C. Loew lower right.
Circa 1950s–1960s.
Dimensions: 52 x 61 cm (20.5 x 24 in.).
small localized area of paint loss
This expressive oil on panel by Austrian painter Kurt Conrad Loew (1914–1981) depicts a peaceful rural landscape composed of cultivated fields, scattered houses, dense groups of trees and distant hills.
The composition is structured in broad horizontal planes, leading the eye from the loosely painted vegetation of the foreground across open fields toward the dark mass of trees and the softly modeled hills beyond. Small houses punctuate the landscape, introducing a subtle human presence into this otherwise tranquil countryside.
Loew employs a remarkably fresh and luminous palette. Pale greens, cream, soft pink and lavender tones contrast with the deep blue-green foliage, while the expansive sky is rendered in delicate layers of grey, white and very pale blue. The deliberately visible brushwork gives the surface a lively, spontaneous quality.
Characteristic of Loew's approach to landscape, natural forms are simplified rather than meticulously described. Trees become vigorous masses of color, fields are reduced to broad horizontal bands, and distant hills are treated in muted blue-grey tones. This balance between observation and pictorial simplification gives the work a distinctly Post-Impressionist and Modernist character, with subtle Fauvist influences in its use of color.
The painting is signed “K.C. Loew” lower right.
A particularly attractive example of Loew's landscape painting, combining an intimate rural subject with confident brushwork and a sophisticated mid-century palette.
The painting presents a small localized area of paint loss near the upper edge, visible in the photographs and consistent with age. Otherwise, the work retains its strong visual presence.
Post-Impressionism – Modernism – Fauvist Influence
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- Creator:Kurt Conrad Loew (1914 - 1981, Australian)
- Creation Year:Circa 1950
- Dimensions:Height: 20.48 in (52 cm)Width: 24.02 in (61 cm)Depth: 0.2 in (5 mm)
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- Condition:small localized area of paint loss.
- Gallery Location:Genève, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2018211530572
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