ORLA MUFF SUPERB 1903-1984 DENMARK MODERNIST DANISH OIL PAINTING LANDSCAPE

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ORLA MUFF SUPERB 1903-1984 DENMARK MODERNIST DANISH OIL PAINTING LANDSCAPE:
$900.00

ORLA MUFF, DANISH LANDSCAPE, OIL ON CANVASThis beautiful landscape painting by Danish Master Orla Muff depicts a group of trees on a rocky embankment. Painted in a modern expressionist style with heavy impasto and bold, vibrant colors. This fantastic piece has an immense amount of character. Ideal for any modern European style home. Signed with custom frame. The Danish artist Orla Muff (1903-1984) was born in Copenhagen as Orla Andreas Heinrik Jacobsen. Atfourteen Muff won a drawing competition and subsequently saw his series of postcards published and reprinted several times. When he entered the technical school(1917-1921)he started to call himself Muff. At the same time he worked as an apprentice of Carl Lund, a designer of stage sets. Muff started his professional career by drawing sets and costumes for different theaters inDenmark. He also worked as a set designerfor the Mayol Theatre in Oslo. From the photographs of Norwegian singer Kirsten Flagstad we can imagine the kind of artwork Muff created for the operette costumes duringthe early twenties. Later on Muffworked for Ernst Rolf’s revues in Stockholm and at Max Reinhardt’s theatre in Berlin. He designed posters, made drawings for magazines and illustrated the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. In the early thirties Orla Muffstarted with oil paintings: portraits, mythologically inspired scenes, stylised figures and even abstract compositions in light colours.SIGNED LOWER RIGHT28 x 20 INCHES~31x23 INCHES FRAMEDCONDITION EXCELLENT

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