ARTIST: John S Koenig (New Mexico, 1927 - 2017)
NAME: Moorish Chieftan (titled on verso)
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light. Some damages to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 14 inches / 45 x 35 cm
FRAME SIZE: 21 x 18 inches / 52 x 42 cm
SIGNATURE: Lower left and on verso
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 116268
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John S Koenig (New Mexico, 1927 - 2017)
A long time painter of Taos, New Mexico, from 1978 to 1997, he then moved to Asheville, North Carolina. John Koenig's background includes study of painting and illustration in New York at the Morgan School of Advertising and the Art Students League. There he also studied sculpture with Jack Pappasion and had a career as producer and director of his own motion picture company, Lumiere films. His film work received honorable mention at the 1964 American Film Festival in New York. Koenig also studied art at the Academia de Belle Arte in Florence, Italy, and at the Academia de Barcelona in Spain.
In 1969, Koenig moved to Maine to resume painting after his film career. He has lived and painted in Taos, New Mexico since 1978.
In addition to oil painting, he works in the medium of encaustic, wax painting, which achieves special optical qualities of translucence, texture and brilliance. The word literally means "burned in," and the process involves the heating and mixing together of dry pigment and wax.
His work has won many awards and prizes and is found in private collections both in this country and Europe. His work has been exhibited in New York in the National Arts Club, the National Academy of Design, Allied Artists of America Show, Salmagundi Club and the Fulton Gallery. He has also exhibited work at the Philadelphia Art Museum, at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, the Farnsworth Museum and Wiscasset Museum in Maine, and The Taos Galleries in Taos, New Mexico and Scottsdale, Arizona.