Amandus Faure, Still Life with Peonies. 1923. Amandus Faure1874 Hamburg - 1931 Stuttgart. Oil on canvas. Signed u.r. "Faure" and dated. Numbered "738" on the verso of the canvas. Framed in a historicizing ornamental frame in Louis XV style. Partially with weak age craquelure. Minimally rubbed in the marginal areas with small loss of painting layer on the upper left, slight climatic edge. Dimensions: 95 x 111,5 cm, overall 111 x 118 cm. Amandus Faure 1874 Hamburg - 1931 Stuttgart First apprenticeship as decoration and scenery painter. From 1892 in Stuttgart, where he began higher training as a painter at the Stuttgart Art School from 1899, 1901, elevated to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Taught academic drawing by Ludwig Herterich, painting by Carlos Grethe and composition by Leopold von Kalckreuth. Faure painted landscapes, vedute as well as genre scenes, portraits and still lifes, especially flower still lifes. 1905 Awarded the gold medal by the Stuttgart Academy. 1907 scholarship holder of the Villa Romana. 1908 travels to Morocco, Spain and the Netherlands, 1909 and 1911 to Paris, later again to Italy. 1914/1915 as war painter in Constantinople and on the Dardanelles, afterwards travels among others to the Balkans and Ypres. Faure was a member of the Stuttgart Künstlerbund, the Deutscher Künstlerbund, the Munich Secession and the Verein Westdeutscher Künstler and regularly took part in their exhibitions. His painterly works are characterized by an idiosyncratic colorism and light-dark contrasts.