Fine Art Tuesday

 

Konrad Hübscher was born in 1858 in Switzerland and died in 1941.

Many of his paintings have a smoggy-foggy quality that is off-putting to modern buyers. "Where is the color? Where is the clarity?" 

It is worth considering that most of his paintings were made during a period in history when COAL was the primary fossil fuel. There were no fly-ash collectors or scrubbers. That hazy overcast was exactly what he saw...and breathed, just like nearly everybody else in densely populated areas during that era.

On the other hand, maybe he had cataracts.

A tip of the old fedora to the tireless Lucas Machias for suggesting this artist.