A truly exquisite full body portrait of a young woman. She has her hair swept up, elegantly, off her neck in a loose style and her head is turned to the viewer, tilted softly over her sloping shoulder. The drawing has an intimate feel, with the face being a focal point with great attention given to capturing the woman's expression. The artist shows a very fine hand in all areas of execution in this drawing. The artist has signed to the lower right quadrant.
The draewing has been smartly presented in a simple gilt effect frame with glazing.
On laid.The condition is typical for a picture of this age including minor discolouration and a few spots of very light foxing although these are only visible when being inspected very close up). The frame has general scuffing and some heavier scratching to the right hand edge.
30 x 38.1cm (11.8" x 15")Framed Size: 34.6 x 43.1cm (13.6" x 17")
Uli Schoop, also called Ulrich Schoop (like his grandfather) or Max Ulrich Schoop (like his father), was born on October 17, 1903 in Cologne as one of five children of the inventor and manufacturer Max Ulrich Schoop and his wife Martha Bächler.
In 1923/1924 he took the general class at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich and did an apprenticeship as a graphic designer at Orell Füssli , a Zurich printing company that also printed securities, stamps and banknotes, among other things. In 1924/1925 he was a painting student in Willy Hummel's studio in Zurich. In 1925 Uli Schoop turned away from painting and studied as an apprentice and volunteer with the animal sculptor Fritz Behnin Munich sculpture. In between, he stayed in Zurich, where he often met the sculptor Hermann Haller .
Uli Schoop lived in Paris from 1926 to 1939. He opened a successful hand-weaving mill, ran his own studio and was a member of the artist group Abstraction-Création . After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he returned to Switzerland. He moved into a studio in Zurich and lived in Killwangen until the mid-1960s and then in Spreitenbach . He later moved to Egg, a district of Muri in the canton of Aargau . He went on study trips to Egypt (1951), Algiers (1953) and Brazil (1964). In Aargau he was also known for his sculpture courses, which he took from 1961 in the old church in Boswil ( Künstlerhaus Boswil) held. From 1957 to 1973 he taught figure drawing for architecture students as a private lecturer at the ETH Zurich .
| SKU | qi091 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Max Ulrich Schoop (1903-1990) |
| Date | Early 20th Century |
| Dimensions | 30 x 38.1cm |
| Medium | Graphite |
| Subject | Nudes |
| Item Returns | This item can be returned |
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