Pamono Bruno Krauskopf, Post-Impressionist Portrait of an Elderly Woman, 20th Century, Oil on Masonite, Framed> Impressionist

Beautiful post-impressionist oil painting on masonite of large dimensions, with a frame from the 1940s, depicting the portrait of a seated elderly woman, signed “B. Krauskopf” on the top right. Bruno Krauskopf is a German painter born in 1892 and died in 1960. On Art Price we found his registered signature which is practically identical to the one on our painting. Furthermore, the color palette used for our painting is very close to that used on most of this artist’s works. The painting can be dated to around 1940 and 1950, and the evident patina that covers the canvas is perfectly in line with our dating. The signature is under patina, in fact under Wood’s lamp it does not change color and remains opaque and covered by the patina, which does not happen for false signatures, affixed after the execution of the painting. For all these reasons, although we do not have the certificate of originality of the work, in our opinion we are talking about a 100% original painting, of great artistic importance for art lovers and collectors.

Useful information for evaluating the object:
from our research we find that the first eight auction results for Bruno Krauskopf range from €13,000 up to €23,000 excluding auction fees of 25-30%. Consider that we are all talking about rather old results, which compared to today, considering inflation, would undoubtedly be much higher. For paintings of the same size, depicting very similar portraits, the auction results achieved range from €5,000 to €11,000, always excluding auction fees, based above all on the importance of the auction house that sold the work. Our painting, in our opinion, is one of the most beautiful of the artist’s portraits of the same size and is very close in artistic quality and beauty to those sold between €9,000 and €11,000.

Information on the artist and/or manufacturer:
Bruno Krauskopf was born on March 9, 1892 in the city of Marienburg, West Prussia. At the age of fourteen he moved to Berlin to begin an apprenticeship as a chromolithographer. A scholarship allowed him to begin studying at the Königliches Kunstgewerbemuseum under the guidance of Professor Doeppler in 1910. Between 1913 and 1920 he began his graphic activity, consisting mainly of lithographs, but to which were added woodcuts and linocuts. In 1916 Krauskopf joined the “Freie Berliner Sezession”, but soon Lovis Corinth managed to convince him to move to the “Berliner Sezession”. In 1918 he was elected a member of the board of directors and the jury, where he remained until 1933, exhibiting his works at annual exhibitions. Krauskopf participated in the founding of the “Novembergruppe” and was part of its working committee together with Max Pechstein, Rudolf Belling and Erich Mendelsohn. Already at the beginning of the twenties, Krauskopf’s pictorial style changed: the color palette became fresher and brighter, the pasty application of color indicated a more decisive inclination towards Impressionism. Personal exhibitions followed at the Flechtheim, Gurlitt and Victor Hartberg galleries in Berlin. Numerous awards testify to Krauskopf’s growing success. Trips to Poland and France between 1927 and 1932 inspired the artist’s work, but his success came to an abrupt end with the Nazis’ rise to power. When he refused to adapt to the official style, his art was declared “degenerate”. The political pressure soon became unbearable and Krauskopf emigrated to Norway in 1933, where he settled in Stavanger. Here he was surrounded by a landscape that perfectly suited his inclinations in light, color and tectonics. This quiet life, in which he could concentrate on his work, did not last long, however, as Norway was occupied and he had to leave again. He went to America, where it took him some time to be accepted. Two New York galleries introduced Krauskopf to the American art world, and by 1952 he was already celebrated as a contemporary American artist at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh. In 1957 Krauskopf returned to Berlin, where he died three years later, on 23 December 1960, following a serious illness. Krauskopf always considered himself a painter “who only knows how to paint and nothing else”, a dedication and passion evident in his work.

Total weight of the painting: 3,419 kg