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Portrait Spanish colonel in the Sahara - Schmid von Biel
Measures 142cm high x 107cm wide
Born and trained in Switzerland, Léon Schmid von Biel settled in Barcelona in 1942. He exhibited for the first time, individually, in Madrid, and took part in the General Exhibition of Fine Arts held in Barcelona in 1942. In Barcelona he celebrated personal exhibitions in various galleries, such as Las Pallarés (1943) and Grifé and Escoda (1955). Catalan critics especially highlighted his ability to paint horses, in which he reached the maximum expression of his art.
With a style halfway between academicism, the baroque tradition and surrealism, Schmid von Biel captures a chaotic and dynamic image that aims to summarize the horror and violence of war. Deformed faces and runaway horses move in a desolate setting reminiscent of El Grecos landscapes of Toledo, dominated by a turbulent sky over which the figures are clearly cut out. These, arranged in agile foreshortenings, converge rapidly towards the foreground, threatening and dislocated.

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