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Edward Alfred Cucuel,
1875 San Francisco – 1954 Pasadena

Wir danken Herrn Wolfgang Schüller für die Bestätigung der Echtheit. Es liegt eine Expertise von Helmut Krause vor.

Der Künstler war Schüler der Akademie in San Francisco, der Académie Julian in Paris, studierte unter Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris. Ab 1910 wirkte er in München; mit Leo Putz arbeitete er vier Jahre auf Schloss Hartmannsberg am Chiemsee. Später lebte er in Holzhausen am Ammersee, danach in München und Starnberg, wo um 1918 seine „Kahnbilder“ entstanden. Ab 1939 bis zu seinem Tod verblieb er in seiner kalifornischen Heimat. Der Künstler wurde durch zahlreiche Ausstellungen geehrt, Werke seiner Hand finden sich in mehreren öffentlichen Ausstellungen.
Junge Dame im Sommerkleid unter Sonnenschirm in kräftig bunter Farbmusterung, der breitrandige Sommerhut mit dunkelblauer Einfassung, der See in sommerlichem Licht. (1020121) (11)


Edward Alfred Cucuel,
1875 San Francisco - 1954 Pasadena

YOUNG WOMAN BY A LAKESIDE IN A DECKCHAIR

Oil on canvas.
47 x 62 cm.
Signed lower left. Verso repeated artist's signature on stretcher frame and canvas and shortened inscription for date and location “St. 29” (Starnberg, 1929).
There are also printed labels of a Gallery in Hannover (gallery name torn off) and a handwritten inscription “Originalgemälde/ Cucuel/ Im Liegestuhl” (original painting/ Cucuel/ in a deckchair).
Stretcher frame with title “Im Liegestuhl” (in a deckchair) in pencil.

We would like to thank Mr. Wolfgang Schüller for confirmation.

The artist studied at the Academy in San Francisco and the Julian Academy in Paris, where he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme. From 1910 onwards he was active in Munich; together with the artist Leo Putz he worked at Hartmannsberg Palace on Chiemsee Lake for four years. He later lived in Holzhausen on Ammersee Lake, then in Munich and Starnberg, where his “Kahnbilder” (barge paintings) were created in 1918. From 1939 onwards until his death he remained in his Californian homeland. The artist's work was celebrated in numerous exhibitions and his works are held in a number of public exhibitions.

This object has been individually compared to the information in the Art Loss Register data bank and is not registered there as stolen or missing.