01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #44

Dietz Edzard, (German/Paris, 1893-1963) 

Carnival in Venice, 1958 

Oil on canvas 

25-1/2" x 31-1/2

Private collection

The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival. The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter, on Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras), the day before Ash Wednesday. The festival is world-famous for its elaborate masks

Dietz Edzard, German/Paris, 1893-1963, came from a talented German family of artists and studied with the celebrated "German Expressionist" Max Beckmann in Berlin, before moving to France in the late 1920s. In Paris, he received wide acclaim, exhibiting regularly with the Post-Impressionists at the Jeu de Paume and at Durand-Ruel, where he met Suzanne Eisendieck, a fellow German artist, whom he married in 1938. During the German occupation of France, Edzard's work, like most great modern artists of the time, was determined to be "degenerate"; his and Eisendieck's paintings of women did not "celebrate German womanhood", but chose to depict the "ideal cretin and whore" instead at carnival, the theatre, opera or racetrack. While Edzard embraced Impressionist and Post-Impressionist study of optics and plein-air observations, he was equally influenced by the Fauves and Expressionists, preferring instead to examine color from a personal emotive experience culled from the drama of the streets, cabarets and the denizens who frequented them. More on Dietz Edzard

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