Natural History Art, Reptiles, Dinosaurs of the Jurassic Period, Print, Vienna, 1955 (Sold)

Description

Fritz Zerritsch was an Austrian painter and graphic artist who spent his life in Vienna. As a painter he favored landscapes and animal subjects, such as horses, birds and game animals. He was the son of Fritz Zerritsch the Elder, a sculptor and graphic artist, and studied at the Academy of Vienna. Zerritsch had his first solo show in Vienna in 1911 and subsequently exhibited designs for stmps and banknots, including the 1,000 schilling banknote in 1938, as well as posters, tapestries, mosaics, and frescoes. Zerritsch’s artwork is in the Osterreichische Galerie, the Albertina, and other museum collections.

Zerritsch did the artwork for a color poster series called Die Geschichte des Lebens auf der Erde [History of Life on Earth] in 1955 and another on Geologie von Niederösterreich [Geology of Lower Austria] in 1962. The offered poster is from the 1955 series.

References:

Bénézit, E. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. France: Librairie Gründ, 1966. Vol. 8, p. 848.

Thenius, Erich. “Jahre Paläontologie an der Universität Wien (1945-1984).” Jb. Geol. B.-A. Vol. 128. Vienna: October 1985. p. 235.

Zerritsch, Fritz.” The-ArtGallery.eu. 2011. http://www.the-artgallery.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=51 (11 May 2011).