Lesser Ury Rare Watercolor....

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Lesser Ury Rare Watercolor....This is a very rare watercolor by Lesser Ury,they are extremly rare and are sought after..it is a watercolor on blindstamped paper..the partial blindstamp is in the upper left hand corner and is signed L.Ury..the size of this watercolor is also a size that Lesser Ury worked
Size is as follows 19 5/8 X 13 3/8 inches  Ury was a very size consistant artist. It appears to have had some gallery labels on the reverse side. Please feel free to ask questions ir concerns. Please view my other Fine Art listings. Ury was born in Birnbaumin Prussia, the son of a baker whose death in 1872 was followed by the family's relocation toBerlin. In 1878 Lesser left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the next year he went toDsseldorfto study painting at theKunstakademie. Ury spent time inBrussels,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 byAdolph von Menzelwhose influence induced the Akademie to award Ury a prize. In 1893 he joined theMunich Secession, one of the severalSecessionsformed 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 theBerlin 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 andpastelswere 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.