STRASSER, ROLAND (Austria, 1895-1974), a painting of four men at a cock fight, oil on canvas, signed lower right corner - Born in Vienna in 1895, Roland Strasser was a son of the painter and sculptor Arthur Strasser. After having studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1911 to 1915, he went on a journey to Asia after Word War I. He travelled widely in Indonesia, China, Tibet, India and Japan and finally settled on the Island of Bali, where he spent about 10 years. After World War II he lived in London and later moved to the US. He died in California in 1974. As of 1922 he did regular solo exhibitions and nowadays his major works are to be found in important public collections. The Balinese period contributed mainly portraits and landscapes as well as sceneries of everyday life from the painter's immediate surroundings. As Strasser had been trained by his father and two leading Austrian artists at the Academy, i.e. the symbolist painter Rudolf Jettmar and the portrait painter Julius Schmid, his oil and watercolour paintings unveil traces of documentary painting combined with expressionist brush strokes - Provenance: Former Private Collection Werner Schramm (1889-1937), bord director of North German Lloyd, an ocean line, located in Bremen. From 1921 - 1934 he lived in Batavia, today Djakarta where he met and married his wife. According to his granddaughter, this painting was bought from Roland Strasser, with whom he cultivated a long friendship and travelled together to Bali and other Southeast Asian Countries in the 1920s.Property from a German private collection, since 1920's - Minor wear, partly slightly retouched and very minor rest., light visibile traces of the stretch frame, mounted on stretch frame.