August Biehle Exhibits Paintings in Hobby Show at Turners Hall

Description:	Article reads: By Louise Bruner. When the American Turners STV, at 3919 Lorain Ave., decided to use their empty wall space for exhibits of hobbies of their members, they uncovered surprising talent and have an interesting schedule of shows lined up. This month and part of next, August F. Biehle displays his paintings, making it his first one-man show in six years. He has been in 25 of the 26 May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he has taken prizes in landscape, industrial, water color and mural and decorative painting. With Biehle, painting is something more than a hobby; it is almosst a way of life. He has developed his own effective technique of combining crayon with water color, undoubtedly inspired by his work as a lithographer. He is now experimenting with abstractions, and approaches the problem in a novel way. He paints a realistic picture, and superimposes the skeleton of his composition, which is what an abstraction is anyway. Id like to see him carry on with his research, and so would he. For he looks forward to the day when hell have enough money to devote allof his time to painting. But hed rather talk about the artistic talent of his son, Sergeant Frederick Biehle, who is expected home this week after serving in Luzon and Korea. Frederick studied art in the Saturday morning classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and painted the murals in Parma High School before his induction. He has sent water colors and pen drawings to his father, and is already enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art. Biehles daughter, Rita, has made a name for herself as a pianist. His show consists of about 30 paintings, which demonstrate his versatility in water color, oil and tempera. There are portraits, industrial scenes, mural sketches and landscapes. People who think they like their art realistic will be enthusiastic over Biehles water colors, even though they are not realistic but highly romantic. Biehle has changed natures colors and topography to suit himself, and the results may be somewhat sweetened, but fresh, enthusiastic and charming. His North Royalton oil landscape demonstrates his flair for decorative art and design. Examples of his mural paintings may be seen in the Alpine Village and the Eldorado Club. Biehle works as a lithographer at the Continental Lithograph Co. He studied at the Cleveland School of Art and in Munich, and has been a member of the Kokoon Club since 1912. Caption reads: Cultural Education Activity, Cleveland News, Sept. 28 1946.
Origin:	1946-09-28
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AmTurnersLS/id/434
Collection:	American Turners Local Societies
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	Copyright Trustees of Indiana University
Subjects:	American Turners (organization) Biehle, August F., 1885-1979

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