American School California Abstract Expressionist MCM Oil Painting Signed

American School California Abstract Expressionist MCM Oil Painting Signed, Gerd Koch, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2", 31 x 25" hand carved frame.
Gerd Koch was born in Detroit in 1929. He received a born F. A. degree in 1951 from Wayne State University. He moved to Ojai Valley with his wife, Irene, in 1952 and did graduate work at U.C.L.A. He has been teaching since 1953.He is listed in International Directory of Arts, Berlin, Archives of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Who’s Who in American Art.Mr. Koch is a young Southern California painter imbued with a Wordsworthian élan in the presence of nature in the raw. Recent oils by Koch in exhibitions at the Esther Robles Gallery and the Long Beach Museum of Art reveal an artist making a concentrated effort to capture on canvas the precise impression made on him by one or another of nature’s infinite variety of moods and expressions.Koch translates these moods and expressions of nature into pictorial equivalents: warmth and fullness of sunlight by swatches of brilliant yellows; plants bending in the wind by slashes of sloping greens. Viewing a Koch picture is something like taking a walk in the country, drinking in the light, moving along without noticing anything of unusual interest for a while and then being pulled short by a sudden rapport with some aspect of nature.Source from May 1966 Laguna Beach Art Association cat.

31 x 25 x 3 in