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Item #AT-0497
Greta (Loebl) Schreyer (1917- 2005)Oil on Canvas Menton, French Riviera
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Description:
Menton, French Riviera by Greta (Loebl) Schreyer (1917- 2005)
Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 unframed
47 x 30 framed
Signed lower left
Verso: G Schreyer on label
Framed in a large Mid Centruy Period frame
This is a spectacular Mid Century Oil painting of the Old Town Menton, on the French Riviera. The view is from the water towards the Quai Impratrice Eugnie Pier. The stunning colorful buildings and charm of the architecture is amazing.
Provenance:
A Park Avenue Estate NYC.
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Greta (Loebl) Schreyer was born on July 28, 1917 in Vienna, Austria. Greta followed in her father's footsteps at 18 to become a master goldsmith. Due to the Anschluss, she and her future husband Oscar Schreyer left the country for France in September 1938. In Paris, they met a wealthy American who sponsored their affidavit for immigration to the U.S.
The couple arrived in the U.S. in March 1939. They attempted to get visas for their parents but did not succeed, and their parents were all deported to concentration camps. Oscar Schreyer's sister Nina Graboi (born Gusti Schreyer) emigrated to New York City with the help of Oscar and Greta.
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Greta Schreyer's jewelry design included lapel pins she created to make a living as a newly-arrived immigrant they became an immediate fashion hit, and were advertised in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, and Mademoiselle magazines. From a goldsmith she evolved into an artist and from 1956, the year of Schreyer's first solo exhibition.
Over the next fifty years her dynamic paintings and colorful watercolors were exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. Her paintings included symbols of her flight from peril, her dream-world, and her optimism. One series was of burning synagogues in Poland, reflecting the destruction of Polish Jewry by the Nazis.
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As of her death, her work was in the permanent collections of Brandeis University Library, The Jewish Museum in New York, Museum Haaretz in Tel Aviv, Israel, and The Albertina and The Oesterreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna, Austria. After Oscar Schreyer's death, Greta married her cousin, economist and Vassar College professor Eugen Loebl. She died in New York City in 2005.
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