Description

This is a 6 1/2 by 5 inch charcoal drawing on paper of a still life with flowers and fruit. It was done by Newark, N.J. artist Adolf Konrad around the 1970s. The photos tell the story. It is in very good to excellent condition. It has an estate stamp. It is unsigned. It will be shipped via UPS or USPS for $13. Born in Bremen in 1915, Germany, Adolf Konrad became an American Scene painter who settled in Newark, Morristown and then Asbury, New Jersey. Konrad was influenced most philosophically by by Georgio De Chirico.He was a student of Bernard Gussow and was a teacher at The Newark School of Fine & Industrial Art. He is well-known for having created some of the most compelling and charming paintings of Newark as well as subtle surreal scenes involving landscape,women,musicians and architecture.He is one of New Jersey's finest painters in the last 80 years.His work is in museums,corporate collections and private collections. He died in 2003