Conrad Buff ART FOR SALE

1886 Speicher, Switzerland - 1975 Laguna Hills, California. Known for: Landscape painting, printmaking, illustration.

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Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the American Southwest. He was apprenticed at age 14 to an uncle, a baker, and confectioner, and baking became a hobby with him for the rest of his life. He also learned the trade of lace designing and making, which ultimately influenced his pointellist painting style, and which was then a major trade in Switzerland. But he felt constrained with having to copy patterns, and in the early 1900s went to Munich, where he lived the heady life of a young man. However, money ran out, and at age 19, he came to America and took the first train West. He was... Read full biography

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Type:Print

Year:1931

Size:12.50" x 17.25"

Medium:Lithograph

Signed:Signed

Edition:na

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In the 1920s, Los Angeles art critic wrote, “Conrad Buff comprehends the enormity of the West. More than that, he adds thereto a discernment of the stylized and conventionalized forms in which the West abound.” This is a masterpiece of printmaking.