Gustav Weiss - Artist Info

About Gustav Weiss

Name variants

Gustav Guwe, Gustav Weiss-Loreth
  • Biography

    The artist was born in 1913 in Munich, Germany. He studied painting, graphics and restoring with Professor Doerner and Professor Heymann and attended the academies of Rome and Munich. Having finished his studies, he traveled to Austria, italy and Switzerland.

    In 1940 he became a soldier and during many years he worked as a war painter and traveled again to Italy, Sicily, Greece and Finland. At this time his works ere to be seen at several war exhibitions and were often bought.

    When he returned from the war, he worked altar paintings and restored paintings. At this time, he began his studies in the palette knife technique which later was of great benefit to his masterful mountain paintings.

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