Lot 34 | 28 November 2021

 

 

LOT 34

LUCIEN FRITS OHL

B. Indonesia, 1904 – 1976

Village Scene, 1950

Signed “L. Frits Ohl” lower right

Oil on board

23.5 x 34.5 cm

Private Collection, Singapore

RM 5,500 – RM 9,000

Frits Lucien Ohl (1904-1976) was a painter whose works were mostly of Indonesian landscapes and Asian panoramas. He was a skilled artiste, watercolourist, and draughtsman in the style reminiscent of the late of GP. Adolfs. He worked in a colourful and impressionistic manner, depicting Indonesian landscapes and culture, often using his palette knife.He worked throughout Indonesia in Jakarta, Palembang and Yogyakarta until he left Indonesia to work in the Hague in 1954. He painted in the style of Gerard Pieter Adolfs’ late period. He produced illustrations of Indonesia for JC Hamel’s Soldatendominee (Hague 1948). He has exhibited in Jakarta, The Hague and the Ethnological Museum Nusantara in Delft. The artist died in 1976.