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Christian Jereczek Ballroom Scene Oil on canvas - $9,500 (dublin / pleasanton / livermore)
608 main st
condition:
excellent
size / dimensions:
47.5 X 37.5
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Christian Jereczek
Ballroom Scene Oil on Canvas
47.5 X 37.5
Born 1935-11-07
DIED 2003
Country Germany
Biography
Artist Jereczek was born in Berlin, Germany, on November 11, 1935. The war years that followed kept him from getting any early artistic training as a child. While a young man, Jereczek's first career was as a stone mason when he helped rebuild a destroyed nation.
His quest as an artist actually began when he became a stone-mason to try and learn all the possibilities that stone would offer for sculptures. His next step was to study at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts under such professors as Drake, HeinWerner, and Theo Balden. During this time Jereczek turned more and more toward oil paintings and began to hone this craft. Under the tutelage of the well-known Frankfurt artists Werner Seipel and Barum-Sekret he was able to develop his tremendous natural gift into wonderful paintings in only two years. He followed these studies up with various other study trips to Paris, Italy and Spain.
Jereczek says that both painting and sculpture are equally important to his artistic expression. He says that he feels as though he needs both mediums to fully express all of his ideas; yet his paintings still make up the majority of his artistic work. Jereczek bases his architectural and landscape paintings on sketches that he has drawn during all of his travels through-out Europe. These sketches not only provide him with an enormous variety of subjects but also a memory book of his travels throughout Europe. Jereczek also does figural works, paintings or sculptures of dancers, portraits, and animal paintings which have contributed to his worldwide reputation. He lends his impressionistic style to many motifs such as: figurative pieces, landscapes, Italian and Spanish scenes, the French coast and harbors, florals, portraiture, and street scenes. He presently resides in the suburbs of Munich.
MR. JERECZEK IS A WONDERFUL IMPRESSIONISTIC ARTIST WHO WAS BORN IN GERMANY IN 1935. JERECZEK SPENT SOME TIME AS A SCULPTOR'S APPRENTICE BEFORE DECIDING TO STUDY ART AT THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN DUSSELDORF UNDER PROFESSOR DRAKE, HENZE, WERNER AND THEO BALDEN. HE CONTINUED HIS STUDIES IN FRANKFURT UNDER PROFESSOR EUGEN VON BARUM-SCKRET AND WERNER SEPPEL.
JERECZEK'S BALLROOM SCENES TAKE ONE BACK TO ANOTHER TIME OF ELEGANCE, A TIME WHEN BALLROOM DANCING WAS WHAT AN OCCASION ENTAILED. LOCATED IN A BEAUTIFUL GRAND OPERA HOUSE WITH TITANIC STAIRCASES, WHICH FLOWED DOWN THROUGH THE NEOCLASSICAL COLUMNS TO DANCERS BY THE GRAND PIANOS. THE EVENING LIGHTING GLOWING THROUGHOUT THE PAINTING. THE PAINTINGS LITERALLY CAPTURING THE VIEWER, PULLING THEM INTO THE DANCE, FEELING THE SWIRLS OF THE DRESSES AS THE DANCERS DANCE WITH THE MUSIC. JERECZEK'S BALLROOM SCENES BRING ONE BACK TO TIMELESS ROMANCE. HE IS ALSO A MASTER AT CAPTURING THE BEAUTIFUL SCENES OF ELEGANT CAFES AND FLOWER MARKETS IN THE MOST ELEGANT OF PLAY LANDS OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS IN PARIS, MONACO, AND PLACES OF ONE'S IMAGINATION AS WELL. TO SIT AT A CAFÉ ON A SUNNY DAY WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY. IN PARIS, BY THE OPERA OR THE MADELEINE. PERHAPS BY THE SEINE LOOKING AT THE NOTRE DAME.
JERECZEK HAS BEEN CAPTURING THE IMAGINATIONS OF COLLECTORS OVER MANY YEARS AND IS A HIGHLY REGARDED ARTIST BOTH IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES.
CHRISTIAN JERECZEK HAS ENJOYED A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ARNOT ART DEALERS IN NEW YORK SPANNING TWO GENERATIONS.