Roland Strasser |
| (1895 - 1974, Austrian) |
| Vienna, Austria, 1895 - Santa Monica, USA, 1974 Born in Vienna in 1895, Strasser was greatly influenced by his father, painter and sculptor Arthur Strasser, and first developed his artistic skills in his father’s studio. He studied arts at Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1911 - 1915 under Rudolf Jettmar and Julius Schmidt, specializing in drawing, painting and sculpture, and also attended the Academy of Munich. Strasser went to Indonesia in 1920, traveling through Siam, Java, New Guinea, China, India, Mongolia, Tibet, Japan and North Africa. He returned to Bali in 1934 and lived there for ten years. There he produced numerous portraits and landscapes of the surrounding community and scenery. Strasser left Bali in 1944 and died in Santa Monica, California, in 1974. His works are in the collections of many important public institutions worldwide, such as: Heeres Museum (Vienna), Moderne Gallerie (Innsbruck), Academie der Kunste (Berlin), Museum Urga, Academy of Art (Honolulu), ARMA (Ubud), National Gallery of New South Wales, (Sydney), UCLA Art Gallery (Los Angeles), Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery (Kitchener), and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto). |
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