Karl Albert Buehr is certainly one of America's most talented artists. Like his French Impressionist contemporaries, he favored working in outdoor settings. He captured the vitality of plein-air scenes with vibrant color and contrasting texture. Born in Germany in 1866, Buehr immigrated to America to pursue an education at The Art Institute of Chicago. He further studied at the Academie Julian in Paris and at the London School of Art, and then continued his education in Holland. Buehr was greatly influenced during the time he spent in Giverny, France, where he became well-acquainted with the works of Monet and other French Impressionists.
Buehr painted Water's Edge, Giverny, France sometime between 1909 and 1911, during the height of his career. Water's Edge is one of Buehr's most complete compositions. His landscape backgrounds were often secondary in his composition, but in this painting, Buehr devotes as much attention to the water, trees, and flowers as he does to the central female figure. By the early 1900's, while Monet was devoting himself only to landscape painting, Buehr and many of his contemporaries were concentrating on depicting female figures in lush settings. In Water's Edge, Buehr shows his capability for capturing the female model, and the effects of light and color in a landscape setting.
Manufactured by Laurel Ink in Seattle, WA, this 500 piece puzzle is easily framed upon completion with completed dimensions of 18 inches by 24 inches.
