Alois Kolb, Hafen graphic – 2 plates colored etching, visual size 38.2 xm x 41.5 cm, signed on the lower right, inscribed on the backside Alois Kolb, Beethoven, Neunte Sinfonie, etching and aquatint, circa 1910, 26.7 x 46.4 cm Alois Kolb, Beethoven Eroica (Sinfonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur op. 55), etching and aquatint, circa 1910, 26.7 x 46.4 cm Dreitausend Kunstblätter der Münchner Jugend ausgewählt aus den Jahrgängen 1896-1908 mit biographischem Künstler-Verzeichnis Alois Kolb, By the forest, oil on cardboard, 26.5 x 33 cm (F. 29 x 36.5 cm), prov Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf Alois Kolb, Vast summer landscape, oil on cardboard. 27 x 35.5 cm (F. 34 x 42 cm), prov Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf
Alois Kolb was born in Vienna in 1875 and died in Leipzig in 1942. He studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Art. From 1907 he taught at the Leipzig Academy. He had success particularly as an etcher, and contributed to journals such as Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst and Jugend. His career in fine art was interrupted by the First World War, in which he served in the Austrian army. After the war he concentrated largely on book illustration.