Bidspirit auction | RENATE DOLLINGER, ”THE COUNTRY PICNIC”

RENATE DOLLINGER, ”THE COUNTRY PICNIC” - ”The Country Picnic”, an original oil painting on canvas by listed artist, Renate Dollinger. Signed lower left with certificate of authenticity on the verso. Measures in frame, 32.5'' H x 42.5'' W. Born in a small town in the Silesian Alps in Germany, Dollinger managed to escape to London in 1939. As a refugee, she attended Reiman School of Art and the London Polytechnic Institute. She joined the British Land Army and Royal Timber Corps and chopped down eighteen trees a day (and she is only 5' 3”). In 1945 she joined the U.S. 3rd Army under Patton to help open the newly liberated concentration camps. In 1947 she joined her surviving sister in California. There she married, raised a family of four children, and began a 47-year painting career. Dollinger portrays the family and religious traditions, the bustling marketplaces and town squares, and the tender human interactions in the Shtetls as if they were part of her own personal experience and happened only yesterday. Though the scenes are born of the artist's imagination, many viewers find they have a compelling sense of truth. Renate' Dollinger's focus in her artwork is the basic human emotions of love, joy, and brotherhood.