Art/Photography
"Fisherman" by Serge Hollerbach
- Item Number
- 14649
- Estimated Value
- 1100 USD
- Sold
- 350 USD to Mainemed1
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
"Fisherman" by Serge Hollerbach, donated by Corrine Bongiovanni.
Serge Hollerbach created this acrylic painting for Corrine in 2009, while he was teaching here in Maine. This orginal painting on paper is unframed and measures 12" x 16".
Serge Hollerbach, former instructor at the National Academy and current member of the Academy and numerous other distinguished organizations, Serge's mostly figurative paintings of modern urban living have gained him reknown in contemporary realism.
Born in 1923 in Pushkin, a suburb of St. Petersburg, Russia, Serge Hollerbach drew constantly as a child, encouraged by an uncle who was an art and literary critic in Leningrad. An ardent and frequent visitor to the Hermitage Museum, Hollerbach decided at 17 that he would become a painter. He had studied at the High School of Art for only six months when the Nazis occupied the small town where he lived. “Subsequently, I spent the war years as a laborer in Germany, where I was sent with hundreds of thousands of Russian men and women to work in the fields and factories,” Hollerbach says.
After the war ended, he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he was “drilled in quick linear drawing and expressionistic characterization.” In 1949, he embarked on a career as a professional artist in New York City. By the late 1950s, he was exhibiting his work in the city, across the country and in Europe. A frequent contributor to The Artist’s Magazine throughout its history, Hollerbach, though legally blind, continues to produce work of beauty and vigor.
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Donated By:
Corrine Bongiovanni
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