Description: For your consideration is a wonderful historical Rio Blanco Veracruz Mexico Landscape oil painting on canvas by Hans Paap (1890 - 1967). The painting dapicts an idyllic Mexican-Escape village scene with some locals a Burro and a dwelling possibly a store with beautiful dwellings in the background. This work comes out of a collection in California and is in good condition considering the work is over 90 years old. This work along with one other, where purchased directly from Hans Paap at his Home Studio in Taos New Mexico in the early 1950s by its current owners relatives. It has been displayed in a smoke free California home for the last 50 years out of any kind of direct sunlight. It sits is in the original frame from that Hans Paap made and hand painted and has been professionally inspected under backlight for repairs blemishes and has none. We have two other Original Oil On Canvas works by Hans Paap if interested. This particular painting it's self is 20" x 16" inches then sits in a hand made hand painted frame measuring 26" x 22" total. The painting is hand signed 'Hans Paap' in the bottom right hand corner. Any inquiries and questions please do not hesitate to inquire. Also check out our other regional fine art and Contemporary Native American Arts. *We have two other Original Oil On Canvas works by Hans Paap if interested. One is another landscapes of Hawaii and then there is an older regal portrait of a Taos Pueblo Man. If more then one of Hans Paap's Landscapes are purchased at the same time, shipping will be reimbursed. Biography- Born in Hamburg, Germany, Hans Paap was a world traveler who worked as an artist in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, and the United States in Los Angeles, Taos, and New York. According to author Bess Murphy, Paap studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich before moving to Veracruz, Mexico, in his early twenties to “study and work in lithography, textiles, fabric painting, and leatherwork.” Afterward, he worked briefly as a filmmaker in the German film industry that was emerging around World War I. His travels and nomadic life are documented primarily in the material record of his paintings. Works from the 1920s indicate he was influenced by late Impressionism and early Cubism and Fauvism as he developed a focus on two primary genres — portraits and landscapes. By 1928, Paap had made his way to Los Angeles. He exhibited works reflecting what Murphy refers to as his “evolving style” that was “in line with the post-Impressionist early European and American modern painters.” An LA Times article from this period quotes Paap as saying he intended his new work to “embody [his] conception of American life and energy.” The portraits and landscapes Paap produced around the world have been well received, but his New Mexican paintings are his most iconic. As Murphy notes, “Paap’s personal life and career were defined by his experience in Taos.” By the time he arrived around 1929, the Taos Society of Artists had already disbanded. Still, their efforts had elevated the area’s status as an international art colony that was attracting a second wave of artists and cultural luminaries such as Georgia O’Keeffe, John Sloan, Rebecca Salsbury James, and others. Paap himself would become friends with some of the TSA founding members, including Kenneth Adams, E. Martin Hennings, and Walter Ufer. These artists, and the land and people of the region, had a profound influence on Paap. The portraits and landscapes he produced during this period, as Murphy observes, were similarly “driven by a deeply romantic, exotic view of Northern New Mexico and its inhabitants.” Although Papa’s initial stay in Taos would only last a few years, he would eventually return in 1949, following stents in Portugal, displaced persons camps in Germany, and two years confinement on Ellis Island. Forever the vagabond, by 1953, Paap had found his way to Hawaii. For the next several years, he traveled to locations across Europe, Mexico, and the United States, even revisiting Taos. He died in his birthplace of Hamburg, Germany, in 1967.
Price: 4250 USD
Location: Taos, New Mexico
End Time: 2024-11-30T11:59:10.000Z
Shipping Cost: 550 USD
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Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Hans Paap
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: Hans Paap
Size: Medium
Item Length: 26 in
Framing: Framed
Region of Origin: Taos New Mexico USA
Personalize: No
Year of Production: 1940's
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 22 in
Style: Americana, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Colonial, Contemporary Art, Expressionism, Impressionism, Western, Abstract Expressionism, Taos New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexico
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Item Width: 6 in
Culture: Mexican
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
Signed: Yes
Period: Art Deco (1920-1940)
Title: Rio Blanco Veracruz Mexico
Material: Canvas
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Subject: Adventure Time, Community Life, Dog, Donkey, Figures, Landscape, On the Road, New Mexico, Southwest, Mexico, Veracruz, Small Town, Burro
Type: Painting
Theme: Americana, Famous Places, Fantasy, Floral, History, Nature, Nautical, Travel & Transportation, Land, Paradise, Vacation, Travel, Wanderlust, Yearning, Veracruz, Mexico
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
