Seff Weidl - Artist Info

About Seff Weidl

Name variants

Josef Weidl
  • Biography from Mehlis

    Actually Josef Weidl, German painter and sculptor (1915 Eger to 1972 Inning am Ammersee), studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1936-38,

    Then went to Italy and France, serving in the Second World War and as a prisoner of war, after returning expulsion from the Sudetenland

    Settled in Kreuth, 1955 exhibition at the Kleemann Gallery in New York, 1968 move to Unterhaching and 1971 further move to Inning am Ammersee,

    Source: Wikipedia.
  • Biography from Auctionata

    Seff Weidl was born in 1915. He went to France and Italy after completion of his studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste of Munich.

    During the Second World War, he was called up for military service and fell into captivity. After his return home and the expulsion from Sudetenland, he found a new home in Bavaria. There, he began working as an independent artist.

    In 1948, a selection of his work was first exhibited in the Kunstverein Stuttgart. National and international solo exhibitions followed, for example at Kleemann Gallery in New York, and at the Neue Galerie Linz.

    Weidl was commissioned to create several monumental works in the public realm, such as the bronze figure of Colonia above the main portal of the new Cologne City Hall.

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