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| | ARTIST NAME: | Weber, George | | ACCESSION NUMBER: | 2004.087.007 | | TITLE: | MCLEOD BUILDING, EDMONTON | | DATE: | 1977 | | CATEGORY: | Printmaking | | MEDIUM: | serigraph | | SUPPORT: | paper | | DIMENSIONS: | Sheet: 33 x 25.4 cm (13 x 10 in.)
Image: 20.3 x 20.3 cm (8 x 8 in.) | | COLLECTION: | Alberta Foundation for the Arts |
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| | OTHER HOLDINGS: | Weber, George | | ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | George Weber was born in Munich, Germany in 1907 and immigrated to Canada in the late 1920s. He worked as a wallpaper designer in Toronto while studying composition, colour and commercial silkscreen techniques at the Ontario College of Art. From there, he made his way to Edmonton and studied at the University of Alberta and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Some of his classes included life drawing and watercolour techniques.
George was a pioneer in serigraphy, or silk screening, and helped to bring awareness to this beautiful technique and train future practitioners. He gave lectures at the University of Alberta, led workshops at the Edmonton Art Gallery and imported handmade Japanese and European fine art papers. George was a founding member and president of the Edmonton branch of the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and in 1985, his serigraph of Moraine Lake was chosen by Canada Post to become a stamp commemorating the Centennial of Banff National Park.
George’s watercolours and silkscreens detailed the impact humans have had on the prairie landscape – depicting Alberta’s transformation through the years, from the depression to its present oil rich prosperity. He also favoured Western Canada’s diverse landscapes, creating richly coloured representations of ranch lands, forests, prairies and coastlines.
George’s pieces were exhibited across Canada and in the United States and England. Some of George’s pieces reside in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto, the Glenbow Foundation, the C.P.E. Permanent Print Collection in Toronto, Imperial Oil, Dominion Foundries and Steel Ltd. and the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers. George was a member of the Society of Canadian Painters in Water Colour, the Canadian Graphic Society, the Edmonton Art Club, the Federation of Canadian Artists and the Northwest Printmakers.
George Weber passed away in 2002. |
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