Anja Decker 1908 Berlin – 1995 Munich Untitled [Italian Street Scene with Horse] Oil over tempera sketches on canvas, mounted on foamboard with a few pinholes, framed Signed and dated (1932) lower right (somewhat faded) Size: 38 x 50.5 cm (unframed) or 51 x 63.3 cm (framed) Provenance: Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich An early expressive-realist work by this important and distinctive representative of Art Informel. ____________________________ Anja Decker Painter, draughtswoman. She spent her youth in Germany, Switzerland, and Crimea. from 1928, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, ultimately becoming a master student of Olaf Gulbransson. 1929–38 Study trips to Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, England, Belgium, and repeatedly to Italy and France. 1938 Attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. from 1953 onward, "feverish exploration" (Bernd Dürr) and engagement with abstract painting. Solo Exhibitions: 1958 Lausanne, Galerie l'Entreacte 1959–65 Galerie van de Loo 1989 (Retrospective) 1990, 1993, 1996 (Retrospective) Munich, Galerie Michael Pabst Awards: 1961 Prize winner at the "Competition 1961" exhibition organized by the "Society of Friends of Young Art" at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich Collections: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Florida, USA Pabst Collection