NATHAN WASSERBERGER MID CENTURY PORTRAIT OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS POLISH AMERICAN

ORIGINAL PAINTING ON BURLAP CANVAS SIGNED AND DATED 1961 ON BACK OF STRETCHER BAR.MEDIUM CANVAS IN GOOD CONDITION FRAME HAS SCUFFS AND MILD WEAR. FRAMED SIZE22.5" WIDTH26.5" HEIGHT CANVAS SIZE14"WIDTH18"HEIGHT Nathan Wasserberger, Polish/American (1928 - 2012)Widely collected and admired in Europe and the United States, Nathan Wasserberger was born in Chrzanow, Poland in 1928. As a young man, he witnessed first hand the horrors of World War II including the death of friends and family and is himself a survivor of Buchenwald. Despite these early challenges, he went on to study at the Academy Julien in Paris and at the Art Students League in New York.Early in his career, his paintings reflected the unbelievable injustices committed by the Nazis upon himself and millions of other innocents.This brooding period was soon replaced by introspective expressions of the joy of life and a celebration of beauty and sensuality. Yet, concealed in every painting, there is a touch of sadness, a carry over of his experiences as a young man.