Henry Holzer (1907-2007) – The Woodland Glade, 1977, Etching
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This is an excellent example of Holzer’s painterly style of etching. With beautiful definition of the tonal range. An artist’s proof and its unlikely it was ever editioned.
Henry Holzer’s artistic life started with evening classes, where he chalked up 1,000 hours of life drawing. He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Regent Street Polytechnic, before taking up a teaching career at Hornsey College of Art.
He served in India during World War II and a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery producing camouflage work and, in the weeks after VE Day, lithographs of anti-doodlebug defences on the Suffolk coast while stationed at Walberswick, Suffolk.
Holzer’s artistic skills had also been put to good use painting murals on the walls of the officers’ mess in nearby Southwold, offending local ladies who mistook his cavorting mermaids and naiads for pornography, and who refused to enter the room, in the end he was ordered to paint them out.
Back in London, he resumed his calling as a teacher, serving as head of printmaking at Hornsey College of Art until retirement in 1968.
In 1966, Holzer moved to an idyllic location in south Norfolk, with views over the Yare valley and was a member of the Great Yarmouth & District Society of Artists and was their president twice. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and with the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, as well as with the Roland Browse & Delbanco, Redfern Gallery, and Piccadilly Gallery also locally at the Yoxford Gallery.
Featuring in many mixed exhibitions, he was prominent in the 50-artist show to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Aldeburgh festival in 1997.
Frame size: 24.5 x 19cm • Artwork size 20 x 14.5cm
