About The Artist:
Gyorgy Stefula
Gyorgy Stefula, born in 1913 in Hamburg and died in 1999 in Bad Trissl, was a German painter, illustrator, costume and stage designer. His unique body of work, in the spirit of Henri Rousseau or pittura metafisica, includes imaginary landscapes or unlikely portraits; it is full of hypnagogic symbolism and mythological references. Preceding his artistic studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg and Master School of Painting in Altona...
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About The Medium:
Oil
Process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. Commonly used drying oils include linseed oil, poppy seed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil.