Willy Bille 1889-1944
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675.00 €
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| Product number: | 712 |
| Material: | Oil canvas |
Product description
Oil painting by the internationally known painter Willy Bille 1889-1944. Masterfully captured marine genre with fishing boats, a steamer in the background.Dimensions without frame: 100 x 60 cm.Willy Bille initially acquired knowledge of painting as an autodidact, later became a student of his father Vilhelm Bille and studied as a scholarship holder at the art academy in 1928 Copenhagen and Paris.
Willy Bille's pictures, influenced by the style of French Impressionism, were represented at numerous exhibitions (including several times between 1912 and 1938 at the Royal Danish Art Academy at Charlottenborg Palace) and are now in museums and private collections - inside and outside Denmark. In 1925 Willy Bille received the Carlson Prize and in 1930 the Lis Jacobsen Prize.
Carl Vilhelm Bille used the name Willy to avoid confusion with his father Vilhelm Bille and his grandfather Carl Bille - both also well-known painters.
Willy Bille used “WB” or “WBille” as a signature (monogram) - whereby the right line of the “W” forms the left line of the “B” - and the line of the “B” is in the lower belly of the “B”. “ turns in or is pulled far down).(Source Wikipedia) Lit:
The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 11, Saur, Munich 1995, p. 36 and Hans Vollmer: General lexicon of the visual artists of the XXth century. century. Vol. 5. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 307 and Weilbach's artist lexicon.
Willy Bille's pictures, influenced by the style of French Impressionism, were represented at numerous exhibitions (including several times between 1912 and 1938 at the Royal Danish Art Academy at Charlottenborg Palace) and are now in museums and private collections - inside and outside Denmark. In 1925 Willy Bille received the Carlson Prize and in 1930 the Lis Jacobsen Prize.
Carl Vilhelm Bille used the name Willy to avoid confusion with his father Vilhelm Bille and his grandfather Carl Bille - both also well-known painters.
Willy Bille used “WB” or “WBille” as a signature (monogram) - whereby the right line of the “W” forms the left line of the “B” - and the line of the “B” is in the lower belly of the “B”. “ turns in or is pulled far down).(Source Wikipedia) Lit:
The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 11, Saur, Munich 1995, p. 36 and Hans Vollmer: General lexicon of the visual artists of the XXth century. century. Vol. 5. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 307 and Weilbach's artist lexicon.