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JOHN VON WICHT Harbor Scene.
Oil wash on Japan paper, circa 1945. 630x865 mm; 24 3/4x34 inches. Signed in black crayon, lower right recto.
With--Kleeman Galleries Exhibition, watercolor on Japan paper, circa 1946. 150x104 mm; 5 7/8x4 1/8 inches. Signed in back watercolor, lower sheet edge.
Von Wicht (1888-1970) was born in Germany and studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar. He immigrated to the United States in the 1930s, settling in New York and working under the auspices of the WPA alongside artists such as Stuart Davis and Byron Browne. By the 1940s, Von Wicht was among to first wave of New York-based artists to embrace abstract expressionism, which he adhered to throughout the rest of his long career.
