Lesser Ury Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"Berlin Street Scene"
Title: Berlin Street Scene
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 16 x 20 in | Image Size: 12 x 16 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Lesser Ury was a German Jewish Impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf School of Painting.
Born November 7, 1861 in Birnbaum, Grand Duchy of Posen, he was the son of a baker, whose untimely death in 1872 was followed by the Ury family’s move to Berlin. At the age of 17, Lesser left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the subsequent year he went to Düsseldorf to study painting at the Kunstakademie.
Ury travelled to Brussels, Paris, Stuttgart and other locations, before returning to Berlin in 1887.
His first exhibition in 1889 was met with a hostile reception, although he was supported by Adolph von Menzel whose influence persuaded the Akademie to award Ury a prize. In 1893 he joined the Munich Secession, one of the several Secessions formed by progressive artists in Germany and Austria in the last years of the 19th century. In 1901 he returned to Berlin where he exhibited with the Berlin Secession, first in 1915 and more notably in 1922, when he had a major exhibition, when in a display of 150 of his paintings, Ury was honoured as ‘the artistic glorifier of the capital’ by the mayor of Berlin. By this time his critical reputation had grown and his paintings and pastels were in demand. Ury’s primary subjects were landscapes, urban landscapes, and interior scenes, treated in an Impressionistic manner that ranged from the subdued tones of figures in a darkened interior, to the effects of streetlights at night, to the dazzling light of foliage against the summer sky.
Ury is particularly noted for his paintings of nocturnal café scenes and rainy streets. He developed a habit of repeating these compositions in order to sell them while retaining the originals, and these quickly made and inferior copies have harmed his reputation.
Always introverted and distrustful of people, Ury became increasingly reclusive in his later years. October 18, 1931, he died in Berlin and is buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee.
