Lofoten - Norwegen

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Oil on hardboard. Signed lower right "T.N." and dated (19)67. Port city on the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway. Thomas Niederreuther (* July 1, 1909 in Munich; † January 23, 1990 in Munich) was a German businessman, painter and writer. Niederreuther studied Economics, political science and sociology in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich. After his doctorate, he took over the family business, a delicatessen trading company. He learned painting and writing autodidactically, painting among other things through numerous trips to Europe and the USA. In 1949 he became a member of the Neue Gruppe, an association of fine artists in Munich, in whose group exhibitions in the Haus der Kunst he regularly took part from 1949. His work was shown for the first time in a solo exhibition in Munich, Mannheim and Cologne in 1962. Thomas Niederreuther was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, founded in 1984 he and his son Tomy set up the Niederreuther Foundation to promote Bavarian painters and to collect theirs r works. He was friendly with the painter Josef Fottner, among others. Niederreuther has published five novels and several volumes of short stories. There are also three books of aphorisms. His 80th birthday in 1989 is celebrated with exhibitions by the Hierling Gallery and the Munich City Museum. A year later the artist dies in Munich. (Wikipedia)