42. Beach [the 1960s]
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42. Beach [the 1960s]
1908, Vidin - 1983, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Estimate:
EUR 4.000 - 6.000
oil paints on canvas, 50.5 x 73 cm, Signed bottom right, in black, "E. Alcheh"
Research information
The artwork participated in an exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Sofia, commemorating 100 years since the artist's birth, held from November 27, 2008, to January 11, 2009. It was reproduced in the exhibition catalog, Collective, Sofia, 2008, p. 87, under the title "Beach," dated to the 1960s.
Eliézer Alshekh was born in Vidin on November 12, 1908. Between 1928 and 1933, he was a student at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. His teachers there included Prof. Karl Kaspar and Prof. Adolf Schinerer. During this period, the young artist developed and built his own artistic style, heavily influenced by modern European trends of Impressionism and Expressionism.
In 1933, when Alshekh graduated from the Munich Academy, a new totalitarian regime came to power in Germany, and the young artist was forced to leave the country by the end of the year. On his way back to Bulgaria, Alshekh traveled through several countries, including Belgium, France, Portugal, Algeria, Greece, and Turkey. The ports of these maritime nations had a significant influence on his art, as during this period he mainly painted landscapes depicting coasts and harbors, which he exhibited in his first solo exhibition after returning to Bulgaria at the end of 1934.
Maritime themes became one of Alshekh’s favorites, to which he always returned throughout his artistic career, including during his years in Argentina and until his death in 1983. By the 1960s, Alshekh was
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