FRANZ BOLINGER IMPORTANT FLORIDA CONSERVATIONIST VINTAGE MODERNIST OIL PAINTING

Description: FRANZ JOSEF BOLINGER OIL ON CANVAS SIGNED BOTTOM RIGHT AND DATED 1967 CONDITION: GOOD OVERALL CONDITION. FRAME HAS SCUFFS/ SCRATCHES AND DRILL HOLES ON ALL SIDES. FRAME 15 1/4 INCHES BY 18 1/4 INCHES CANVAS 9 BY 12 INCHES Following is copy of the artist's obituary from The Miami Herald, Sunday, July 27, 1986, courtesy of Kay Story:Franz Josef Bolinger, an artist who painted thousands of pictures of the Everglades, died Friday night after heart surgery. He was 77. A man obsessed by his love of nature, Mr Bolinger was best known for his outspoken devotion to and massive collection of paintings on the jEverglades. He liked to call himself the last of the old-time Florida artists."It's so beautiful, so beautiful that I get bitter and bitter at these people who are destroying it", Bolinger said of the Everglades in 1974."If the Creator was willing, I'd paint 500 pictures a year. I don't care if I sell one of them. That's why I'm painting so furiously from 6 o'clock in the morning to 3 o'clock next morning. I paint every day."In 1960, Mr. Bolinger became dedicated to preserving the Everglades on canvas. "Civilization is working night and day to destroy the great vacant places of the earth," he said then."I will try and retain in the only place where anything is permanent - man's imagination. Let's have some happy painting for a change. The world is still full of beauty. Of course, it's more difficult to paint a sunset than a board fence or a garbage pail, but just look at the difference."Between 1962 and 1974, Mr. Bolinger almost exclusively painted the Everglades completing more than 1,000 paintings.Mr. Bolinger, born in Ft. Lauderdale, lived in Florida nearly all of his life and was a favorite among many Miamians. Once when he opened his Miami Beach gallery in 1969 among hundreds of people who braved the torrential rains, there was a woman who said she had been trying to buy a Bolinger for nine years. Her proof was a 1960 clipping of an article on Mr. Bolinger.Mr. Bolinger, who lived with his older sister, Reeves Bolinger, never married. "I never married because I'd have a dozen children and never do this," He once said. Before taking up landscape painting, Mr. Bolinger concentrated on portraits and even studied for several months with a doctor, in order to gain anatomical accuracy. He also dabbled in sculpture and was an accomplished tenor, performing two concerts in Washington, D.C. in 1947.Mostly a self-taught painter, Mr. Bolinger went to the University of Miami but studied science and botany. "I refused an art degree because they were painting toilet seats - art!" he once said. Mr. Bolinger never liked modern art and strongly criticized it. "I won't paint to match a couch!" he once said. "And I am not going to paint a purple cow." The following, submitted by Kay Story, is a copy of a promotional brochure for an exhibition for Franz Josef Bolinger by Alton J. Chapman:Franz Josef Bolinger, acclaimed by critics and many collectors as "Premier Landscapist of Florida," was born of pioneer stock near a small college town in Southern Illinois. He began his pioneer painting of the Everglades in his early youth in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Mr. Bolinger has won first awards as far back as early grade school. At the age of 18, he was presented a scholarship by Dewing Woodward of the University of Miami, first to recognize this future master painter of Florida landscapes. Since then, his training has been varied because of European tutors resulting in his being taught to think for himself.Upon completion of three one-man shows held at the John Nicholson Galleries in New York, he returned to Miami on the advice of Mr. Nicholson to paint the subject he knew best, rather than the subjects which should appeal to the commercial buying public. Bolinger flatly denies that he is a pointilistic impressionist. Rather, he refers to himself as an illuminatist painter, which has rsulted from his study of atmospheric radiance of the Everglades, so often overlooked by the majority of artists attempting to paint a subject beyond the scope of their comprehension. Bolinger feels that to know the Glades, one must "wade" through the mud and "smell" the exotic growth. Periodically throughout the year, regardless of the heat or rain, he may be found canoeing or tramping deep in the heart of the Glades gathering research for future paintings. His paintings are to be found in the finest of galleries on the east and west coasts of the United States.Mr. Bolinger is independent and aloof, refusing to follow any current trends or school of art, keeping the Everglades as his main forte. He has been elected fellow of numerous art societies, but is not overly enthusiastic at the notoriety so keeps to the Everglades. To quote Bolinger, "There is no need to go to Europe to paint. I find the State of Florida has more fine scenery to paint than one could possibly do in a lifetime, even with the diabolical destruction now going on."Mr. Bolinger is referred to by many as the "most meticulous painter of the Everglades," which was resulted from his complete dedication to preserving the Glades on canvas like Remington and Bierdstad who likewise preserved the Old West.

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