Lot 47

Josef Liesler (1912 - 2005) PIAZZA SAN STEFANO

Josef Liesler had a remarkable talent for improvisation, and his artistic skills were consistently of a very high standard. He worked in the fields of painting, fine and applied graphic arts, stamp design, poster art, illustration, monumental painting, mosaics, and sgraffito. He himself described his work as “fantastic reality.” A strong influence of Surrealism is evident throughout his entire body of work. In it, he combined fantastical visions with memories, and the present situation with historical memory.