George Fertig (1915–1983) was a

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. He was born in

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and died in

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. He began with photography in his early 20s and started oil painting at the age of 24. In 1941 he moved to Vancouver from Trail. He exhibited in the B.C. Artists Annual Exhibition in the 1940s and early 50s. But with the rise of abstractionism and the confines of the sociopolitical climate of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Vancouver School of Art, his work was rarely seen outside of the Gallery of B.C. Arts in the 1960s and 70s. The Burnaby Art Gallery held a retrospective of his work in 2010 and his daughter Mona Fertig wrote and published ''The Life and Art of George Fertig'', the 3rd book in the Unheralded Artists of BC series-

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, for the exhibition. He was profoundly influenced by world art:

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, Chardin, and the writings of

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. Fertig, along with David Marshall, Peter Paul Ochs, Jock Hearn, LeRoy Jensen, Frank Molnar, and Jack Ackroyd, belongs to a group of neglected artists that are part of Vancouver art history of the 1940s, 50s & 60s. George Fertig was married to Evelyn (née Luxa) Fertig (1925–1994). They have two daughters.

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George Fertig
1915 births 1983 deaths People from Vulcan County 20th-century Canadian painters Canadian male painters 20th-century Canadian male artists {{Canada-painter-stub