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Walter Langhammer (1905-1977)
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Description
- Walter Langhammer
- Swiss Landscape
- Signed 'Langhammer' lower right
- Oil on Canvas
- 22 1/2 by 30 1/2 in. (57 by 77.5 cm)
Catalogue Note
Walter Langhammer was a key personality, as artist, critic and patron, responsible for encouraging and promoting the modern art movement in Bombay during the 1940's.
'Langhammer brought into India the Austrian-born Expressionist painter, Kokoschka's style of panoramic landscapes of the great European cities in pure hues. Similar hues of colour were employed by Bendre to replace the mellow colour scheme of the existing Indore School as if to usher in the celebration of the Indian sunshine. Interestingly, the new approach was soon to be picked up by the young S.H. Raza toward the end of the 1940's.' (Ratan Parimoo, republished in LKC #37 March 1991, p. 73-74.)
'Langhammer brought into India the Austrian-born Expressionist painter, Kokoschka's style of panoramic landscapes of the great European cities in pure hues. Similar hues of colour were employed by Bendre to replace the mellow colour scheme of the existing Indore School as if to usher in the celebration of the Indian sunshine. Interestingly, the new approach was soon to be picked up by the young S.H. Raza toward the end of the 1940's.' (Ratan Parimoo, republished in LKC #37 March 1991, p. 73-74.)