Oscar Früh was a Swiss painter and architect. From 1910-13, he studied architecture at the ETH Zürich and then from 1913 at the Technical University of München, graduating in 1918. He first worked as an architect in Zürich, Genève and Colmar. In the 1920s he settled in Paris, where he attended various courses to improve his skills and focused on painting, mostly of horses. Later he lived in Sceaux (near Paris), Zürich and again near Paris in Fontenay-aux-Roses. He also became known for his cover designs for the Swiss magazine “Schweizer Spiegel” (Swiss Mirror). A whole series of Früh’s paintings has riders as a motif. They were produced in different techniques (Lithography, drawing, oil). An oil painting entitled “Jockeys” was exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1930.
Switzerland