Orange Objects on Green.

Marin County, CA: 1999. Oil on canvas. 51 x 40 inches. Signed and dated lower right as well as on the verso.From the collection of the late San Francisco artist Vesta Kirby (1936-2016) who was a designer at SOM and the studio and restoration assistant and to Gordon Onslow Ford (1981-1992).Born in 1920, Fritz Rauh emigrated to the U.S. in 1954, and showed at the DeYoung in 1956 at his first U.S. exhibition. His experiences in WWII and six years spent as a Russian Prisoner of War helped shape his later life and career. Adding another layer, his affection for the natural world and his passionate and humorous love for his wife, Alix, informed his painting and supplied the depth of emotion inherent in each piece. In May 1968, San Francisco Chronicle writer Alfred Frankenstein cited Rauh as one of the most original painters in the Bay region: “[Painting] hundreds, perhaps thousands, of small, writhing connecting shapes on his canvas imitating nature and leading to a certain mysticism, the effect is ‘Magnificent’”.Fritz Rauh studied four years at the Braunscgweig Art School and Academy (1952), Germany. Came to the United states in 1954 and became associated with Richard Bowman, Lee Mullican and Fred Riechman who painted in abstraction based on sources both in nature and Oriental art.Solo Exhibitions: M.H. De Young Museum San Francisco,1956; David ColeGallery, Sausalito, 1959; Louvre Gallery, San Francisco, 1963; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1967; Trutton Gallery, San Francisco, 1968; Rose Rabow Gallery, San Francisco, 1969, 74, 75, 77; William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, 1971, 72;Selected Exhibitions: International Art Show at EXPO 70, Osaka, Japan;Creation, Gallery Schreinber, Basil, Switzerland, 1978; San Francisco Bay