Georg Arnold-Grabone (1896 - 1982) Germany
Oil on Canvas
Measure 31 1/2"in H x 16"in W and 37"in H x 21 1/2"in W with frame

Known for: Land-and seascape painting
Name variants: Arnold Grabone
Biography: Born in Munich on September 11, 1896, Arnold was the son of the Regional-President Wilhelm von Arnold. He went to study at Munich Art Academy. In 1914 the young Arnold passed his exit examination, and volunteered as an enlistee in the German Army. While serving in World War I. he suffered a head injury from a grenade explosion. The injury left him temporarily without hearing or speech. Because of his injuries he was discharged from the army. He returned to his Schwabian homeland. Arnold abandoned these experimental forms and returned to more traditional painting. Some years later he would write "Ich bin kein Freund der abstrakten Kunst" (I am no friend of abstract art). After Vienna, Arnold returned to in Munich where studied landscape painting under Heinrich von Zügel and Leo von Konig. After Munich, he traveled to Berlin where he further refined his painting style under the well-known German impressionist Max Liebermann. Arnold once wrote that Liebermann made him into a true painter. On his stylistic naturalism, Arnold once wrote: "Ich gebe die Stimmung der Landschaft so wieder, wie ich sie empfinde und wie sie auch der Betrachter empfinden soll" (I show the mood of the landscape in the way that I feel it and, as also how I want the viewer to feel it) In 1928 Arnold was awarded a gold medal in Vienna for his oil painting: Hardanger Fjord. In 1932 he moved to Zurich to teach at an art academy. He later became its Rector. In 1936 he began to use the name Grabone as a "kunstlername" rather than Arnold. Grabone was derived from Garabronn, the place of his family home. His painter friends included Otto Pippel and Franz Xavier Woffel. Although he was financially successful as a painter, Arnold painted because of his love of the aesthetic. Once, it is told, he traded a painting for taxi fare. Although he maintained his studio in Tutzing the artist exhibited throughout the world. In the 1950s and 1960s Arnold-Grabone had exhibitions in the United States, including New York, Chicago, Washington DC and Sarasota, Florida. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson owned in his private collection an original Grabone titled "Arber". Arnold-Grabone became well known for his unique style of Palette knife painting. His technique used the texture of thickly applied paint to create an actual three-dimensional representation of a landscape. In Grabone's works, the colors are remarkable for their brilliance, distinguishing his landscapes from those of other pallet-knife painters. The brilliance is a result of Grabone's color-separation technique in knife-painting. His favorite subjects were of the Alps of Bavaria and South Tirole, the Isle of Capri, the English Garden in Munich, the lake region surrounding Starnberg, and fishing boats on the North Sea. His unusual signature is incised into the wet paint with the opposite end of the brush, almost invariably on the bottom left hand of his oil paintings (and on the bottom right for watercolors).

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