Lesser Ury Oil Sketch

Description

Lesser Ury Oil Sketch. this is a oil sketch by Lesser Ury...Ury was born in
Birnbaum
in Prussia, the son of a baker whose death in 1872 was followed by the family's relocation to
Berlin
. In 1878 Lesser left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the next year he went to
Düsseldorf
to study painting at the
Kunstakademie
. Ury spent time in
Brussels
,
Paris
,
Stuttgart
, and other locations, before returning to Berlin in 1887.
His first exhibition was in 1889 and met with a hostile reception, although he was championed by
Adolph von Menzel
whose influence induced the Akademie to award Ury a prize. In 1893 he joined the
Munich Secession
, one of the several
Secessions
formed by progressive artists in Germany and Austria in the last years of the 19th century. In 1901 he returned to Berlin, where he exhibited with the
Berlin Secession
, first in 1915 and notably in 1922, when he had a major exhibition. By this time Ury's critical reputation had grown and his paintings and
pastels
were in demand. His subjects were landscapes, urban landscapes, and interior scenes, treated in an Impressionistic manner that ranged from the subdued tones of figures in a darkened interior to the effects of streetlights at night to the dazzling light of foliage against the summer sky.
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