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Jean Max Friedrich Welz

Jean Max Friedrich Welz (1900 - 1975) was active/lived in South Africa, Austria.  Jean Welz is known for Abstract figure, portrait, still life, nudes and landscape painting, architecture.

Jean Welz (1900-1975)

Esmé Berman (1996:494) describes Jean Welz's career as "a solitary adventure, unrelated to surrounding trends and fashions. There is nothing of Africa imprinted on his paintings, there is little that is truly modern, even in his abstract style. It is the delicate balance between reason and emotion, the impeccable technique and the additives of sensitivity and meditative insight which permitted him to pursue a path outside the main line of SA artistic development and yet retain widespread regard as one of the country's most distinguished artists."

Welz's approach to his art is best reflected in a letter he had written to his brother, a gallery owner in Salzburg, before an exhibition there in 1965. He explained that his paintings were "documents of his soul" and said that his objective was to create "painterly poems".

Hans (Jean) Max Friedrich Welz was born in Salzburg, Austria, one of five children, to a Roman Catholic family in 1900. His famil   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14398 characters.]  Artist bio

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