Manfred Schatz Three Riders On The Beach Oil Painting Manfred Schatz [1925 – 2004]

Manfred Schatz Three riders on the beach,
Oil painting Manfred Schatz [1925 – 2004]
Oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm,
signed lower right M. Schatz
Condition: very good

Manfred Schatz [Bad Stepenitz (on the lagoon of Szczecin) 1925 – 2004 in Meerbusch, Germany]. Studied at the School of Applied Arts in Stettin and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In Berlin, at seventeen, he was the youngest student in a German art school. After being a prisoner of war, he returned from Russia in 1949 and, after a series of commissioned paintings, devoted himself to his real goal: the instantaneous capture of animals in motion in their natural environment. He never hunts except with a brush and a palette. Based on the plein air painting of the Impressionists, the artist creates charcoal animal drawings and plein air oil landscape studies. From these he later develops large, moving oil paintings in the studio. With the attack and flight movement of his own style of design, his concern for the preservation of wild animals and their habitat threatened by man is also expressed. Manfred Schatz, awarded the honorary title of “Most Important Painter of Wild Animals” and the Federal Cross of Merit, was a professor of painting at the University of Davenport – Iowa / USA.