The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration. Some creasing to the upper left corner.
27.8 x 42cm (10.9" x 16.5")Sheet: 32.2 x 46.1cm (12.7" x 18.1")
Henry Robert W. Holzer, was born London on 31 December 1907. Holzer enjoyed a happy childhood devoted to painting and drawing, with an amused appreciation of the everyday world around him. He often drew on the newspapers and packets in his grandmother's sweet shop. His Viennese-born father was a lithographer in the London office of Hübner, where Henry took an apprenticeship on leaving school. He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Regent Street Polytechnic, before taking up a teaching career at Hornsey College of Art. He married in the City of London in 1934, Helena Joan Hayes (1910-1982), and they had a son, Alan, but divorce followed in 1940. War service saw a posting to peaceful northern India, where he spent most of his time painting the spectacular scenery. Holzer's artistic skills had also been put to use painting murals on the walls of the officers' mess in nearby Southwold, offending local ladies who mistook his cavorting mermaids and naiads for pornography, refused to enter the room. In the end, he was ordered to paint them out. Back in London, he resumed his calling as a teacher, serving as head of printmaking at Hornsey until retirement in 1968. Following marriage at St Pancras, London in 1957, to his former student Pamela G. Platford (born 1934), his second family came to embrace seven children. In 1966, Holzer moved to an idyllic location in south Norfolk, with views over the Yare valley and was a member of the Great Yarmouth & District Society of Artists and was their president twice. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and with the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, as well as with the Roland, Browse and Delbanco, Redfern and Piccadilly galleries. Featuring in many mixed exhibitions, he was prominent in the 50-artist show to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Aldeburgh festival in 1997. He died on 8 July 2007.
Gloucester, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
| SKU | rn265 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Henry Holzer (1907-2007) |
| Date | Mid 20th Century |
| Dimensions | 27.8 x 42cm |
| Medium | Lithograph |
| Style | Mid Century |
| Subject | Architecture & Cityscapes |
| Item Returns | This item can be returned |
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