David Kreitzer American Artist Vintage Full Length Portrait Original Oil/Canvas

  
David Kreitzer (1942-) American Artist Vintage Full Length Portrait Original Oil on Canvas. Slight craquelure at bottom because of paint used which is natural but mentioned for accuracy. Slight chipping of vintage wood frame because of age and use. This is a well done full length portrait.

Paper on verso - Ready to Hang! MEASURES: Framed- 27" x 21" - Unframed- 23 3/4" x 18".

David Kreitzer's landscapes and portraits are beautiful statements about beautiful nature. Many artists throughout the years have painted with just such a love of nature -- from English landscape artists such as Turner and Constable to nineteenth century artists such as Cezanne. The romantic quality of Kreitzer's paintings give them such a lushness and a hint of an underlying meaning.

The meaning may be the importance of the gift of nature to man or a hymn to the readily available, but often unseen aura around us. Each viewer must accept the statement that the work makes to them, but each landscape is more than subject matter, color and technique. It is not wrong to look for the beauty in todays world. Too few people try to find beauty and for too long the word "beautiful" has been out of fashion when describing works of art.

Kreitzer's paintings are best described as beautiful objects in the tradition of fine art. As a young painter, David Kreitzer began his professional career showing at the prestigious Maxwell Galleries in 1960's San Francisco. Fred Maxwell considered David to be in the vanguard of a revival of New Realism. Thomas Albright, art critic of the. Wrote: David Kreitzer is a highly traditional figure painter who demonstrates how much poetic intensity the old tradition can still contain.

Kreitzer has been a full time artist since he received his masters degree in painting at San Jose State University in 1967. He grew up the son of a Lutheran minister who, due to his calling, moved his family frequently throughout the Nebraska countryside. His works are in the collections of Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, Hirschhorn Foundation, the corporate headquarters of Revlon Olga, Barnes-Hind, Sinclair Paints, Lloyd's Bank, Cargill and the San Diego, Sheldon, Minnesota, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Museums. Private collectors include Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, Ray Bradbury, Mary Tyler Moore, Michael Douglas, Pepe Romero, Quinn Martin, Raymond Burr and Donald Simon. Kreitzer has exhibited his work in numerous one-man shows across the country, starting with Maxwell Galleries in San Francisco in 1967, and most recently a successful and acclaimed one man show in Seattle in conjunction with the Seattle Opera Ring Festival.

He has been represented by galleries in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, Carmel, Dallas and Seattle. Kreitzer executed two covers for. And was featured artist in.

He has been listed for many years in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in California and Who's Who in America. Posters, commissioned by Seattle Opera in 1981, are still collected world wide. Of San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. Here in Bend, he was featured in the Spring 2021. And was the cover and poster artist for the 2020 and 2021.