The American Artist struggle is one known well by an American/German Artist known as “Lyle”. He was born in 1957 with the name Baron Frederick Lyle Bartholomew der Graf von Thrauthemburg und Morsbach und der Graf Von Morris.
Baron Von Morsbach und Morris studied at Park College in Parkville, Missouri and Northern Virginia State University in Arlington, VA, he studied in Boston Mass, Penn State, several universities in Germany and currently has exhibits in Colorado, New York, Paris and Germany. He has degrees in Behavioral Science, Psychology, and Art History, is employed as a Systems Analyst and Database Manager. He intends to keep his painting as a hobby, feeling he does his best work with that approach.
Baron von Morsbach un Morris, has traveled extensively, and now lives in Heppenheim, Germany, has a home in Weston, West Virginia, a small farm in Natick, Mass and an art gallery there as well. He keeps a flat in Norfolk, VA and has a family home in Pennsylvania. Most of his family lives either in the United States or Germany. He has been exposed to European art, his influences include Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin.
Some of his exhibits have included the Vesecky Gallery in Paris; the City Gallery of Ixheim, Germany, the Tylor Gallery of Aschaffenburg, and the City Gallery of Aweibruechen. In the United States, he has exhibited at galleries in Norfolk, Virginia; Detroit and Birmingham, Michigan and currently has exhibits in Colorado Springs, Colorado, New York and Germany. He received the Beacham Fine Arts Award and a Beacham Gold Medal in 1997. Among other awards are the Grumbacher Gold Medal, the Velsecky Fine Arts Award, and the U.S. Army TACOM Artist of the Year.
Frederick Morris is a featured artist in New Art International, published June 1998 by Book Art Press, and he’s listed in American Artist’s Who’s Who in 1998. His painting, “Friends,” depicting a tropical bird, was on the cover of Cruise Magazine, June 5, 1996, and was part of a benefit auction of a large donation of his work for the Midwest AIDS Prevention Project.
In June, 1998, Morris presented an oil painting, “The Mask of Virgil”, to Park University President Doctor Donald Breckon. From April 19th to June 17, 2002, the artist had a solon exhibit, open to the public, at the invitation of the city of Lindenfels, Germany. H.E. Frederick Baron Von Morsbach un Morris has been featured in art exhibits and news accounts such as The Weston Democrat “Artist Off to Iraq” Oct 27, 2004, Weston, WV., Alumni Magazine “Artist honors College” Summer 1998, Park University, Parkville, OK., The Progress News “Craig Gallery Presentation” Volume, Issue1, July 1988, Clarion, PA., The Detroit News “European painter displays locally” May 1993, Warren, MI., The Swann Gallery -Progression of Maters (Detroit Free Press Feb 7, 1997) Detroit, MI., noted in several exhibits as Frederick Von Thrauthemburg for The Clique Gallery A New Way of Looking May 22, 1996, Royal Oak, MI., New Art International, Page 149, Lyle Morris, 1992., Diversions Magazine, Gallery Opening Apr 3, 1998, Detroit, MI., The Rescare Connection Magazine, Award Winning Artist, Winter 2004, Buckhannon, WV.. Art Notes Magazine, Spring 1998. Detroit, MI., as well as numerous other magazines.
Recently, Frederick Von Thrauthemburg, graf von Morsbach un Morris has donated a variety of paintings to the American Easter Seal Foundation in Colorado, other charities supported by this artist is Inside Out, a youth group, SCAP of Colorado, The American Red Cross, FCC Church, MCC Church and other organizations. Recent sales have been conducted by boundless gallery on the Internet.
