BENJAMIN A. STRASSER(German 1888-1955)
Portrait of an Elegant Woman in Front of a Tapestry - 1913
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
57 inches x 47 inches (145 x 120 cm)

Strasser was born into a family of artists. He was the son of noted sculptor and painter Arthur Strasser and his brother Roland was also a practicing artist. From 1905 to 1912 he studied at the Vienna Academy under Franz Rumpler and Siegmund L'Allemand. He also studied abroad including trips to Paris, Holland, Germany and Switzerland. In 1912, Strasser moved to Munich where he was also a member and a judge of the Munich Artists' Association.

During the First World War, Strasser worked as a war artist and produced designs for various types of posters including war bond posters. He was also a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany and winner of Trebitsch price. Before the Nazis took power, Strasser fled to England via Switzerland and finally, in 1953, he immigrated to the United States where he died two years later.

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