Oskar Gawell - Artist Info

About Oskar Gawell

  • Biography

    Oskar Gawell (born February 19, 1888 in Chawlodno, Prussia, today Poland, March 14, 1955 in Vienna) was a German-Austrian painter. In his work, Gawell devoted himself mainly to genre and landscape painting. He preferred motifs with lakes, boats and houses.

    From 1909 to 1912 he studied at the academies in Breslau and Weimar. In 1913/14 he was a pupil of Lovis Corinth in Berlin. At the first exhibition of the Freie Secession Berlin in 1914 he was represented along works by Max Oppenheimer, Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and others. During this time he had close contact with the artists of the bridge. In 1926 he was awarded the Albrecht Duerer Prize of the City of Nuremberg.

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