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Gret Kalous-Scheffer (1892-1975) «Art Nouveau Fashion» ca 1915, Watercolor (m)

She received her education at her father’s painting school, where she founded the „Kalous fashion course“ in 1915. Gret Kalous-Scheffer (nee Kalous) was born in 1882 in Vienna. She was a fashion designer, fashion illustrator, founder of a fashion school, daughter of Robert Scheffer – the original founder of the „Scheffer Painting School“.

Henri-Alexis Schaeffer 1900-1975: Watercolor Village Perouges 1947

On November 27, 1941, he was repatriated8 as having participated in the 1st World War although he did not do it9. He will never forget his comrades of captivity and will keep in touch via theAssociation of the Elders of the Stalag IV A with whom he has an almost indebted correspondence10. This is how he will keep privileged contact with the former trusted man of the Stalag IV-A, Father Huby who officiates at Argenteuil And will painted his Church but also with the Chevallier family whose walls of their inn-restaurant he will decorate on theRed island In 195110. The series of paintings related to Corsica starts at this period: «(The Beauty Island) did not steal its name, says Schaeffer. Corsica is much wilder and grandiose than Côte-d’Azur. The red island is a rocky outgrowth of the western.