Painting of Drummer by artist: Paul Lucien Dassau

Description: Description: DrummerArtist: Paul Lucien DassauYear: 1909-1999Medium: oil on canvasSize: 8-1/4 x 5-1/2"Without Frame 11"X14"x1.5"Condition: See images. They signed lower left. Framed - some slip to frame- see images. Paul Lucien Dessau (15 September 1909 – 3 September 1999) was a British artist best known for the paintings he produced during the Second World War while serving as a fireman in London.EARLY LIFEPaul Dessau was born in London, the third of four children. His father died when he was young, and he did not do well at school. On leaving school, he joined a commercial art studio as an apprentice, mostly doing catalog work for department stores. In due course, he started his design studio with his brother Bernard, also known as Dewsbury Dessau. While continuing to work, Paul Dessau began to study part-time at the Hornsey School of Art, took anatomy classes at the Central School of Art and Design, and eventually began to show works at various London galleries. id="google_ads_iframe_/20842576,21798633920/EFQ01M/EFQ01M-DDL.A_0" name="google_ads_iframe_/20842576,21798633920/EFQ01M/EFQ01M-DDL.A_0" title="3rd party ad content" width="1" height="1" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" role="region" aria-label="Advertisement" tabindex="0" data-load-complete="true" data-google-container-id="2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; vertical-align: bottom; width: 320px; height: 50px;">WORLD WAR IIG V Blackstone, GM, London Fire Force (1941) (Art. IWM ART LD 1356)At the start of the Second World War, Paul Dessau and his brother Bernard joined the Auxiliary Fire Service, which in 1941 became the National Fire Service. Several artists had joined the NFS, and a firefighters artists' committee was formed, including Bernard Hailstone, Leonard Rosoman, Norman Hepple, Robert Coram, and Dessau. The NFS agreed to assist the artists as long as their fire-fighting duties were not adversely affected. The War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC, agreed to consider purchasing any works produced. In time, WAAC was to buy at least two paintings by Dessau. As well as contributing to WAAC and specialist civil defense art shows, the firefighters held several exhibitions. In 1941, the Firemen Artist Group attracted some 64,000 people in a month to the first of twenty exhibitions they were to have at the Cooling Galleries. In addition, four firefighter artist exhibitions were held at the Royal Academy and then toured around Britain during the war, while two exhibitions toured America and Canada.Several works by Dessau featured in these wartime exhibitions, including And So To Bed, showing a carefully laid-out uniform of an auxiliary fireman, and several fine portraits, including one of District Officer Blackstone, who was awarded the George Medal for his actions after a fire station was bombed during the Blitz. Menace is a set of four canvases, now in the London Fire Brigade Museum, entitled Overture, Crescendo, Rallentando, and Diminuendo, which show fire-fighters tackling a giant demonic fire figure that towers over them in the first canvas, Overture, but lies defeated in the final Diminuendo. Dessau also contributed illustrations to the 1942 NFS anthology Fire and Water, the 1943 WAAC booklet Air Raids, and a 1943 book on firefighters co-written by Stephen Spender.

Price: 500 USD

Location: Durham, North Carolina

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