Franz Marx, Still life with poppies. Probably 1930s. Franz Marx1889 Munich - 1960 ibid. Oil on canvas. Signed "Franz Marx" on the left. The canvas in the upper half of the painting with a tiny loss in the painting layer and a tear (ca. 1,5 cm), this and two other spots backed with patches on the verso. Verso mi. a weaving tear in the canvas, probably closed by the artist himself with putty (inherent to the work). Painting slightly soiled, at the lower margin inconspicuously scratched. Dimensions: 80,5 x 70,8 cm. Franz Marx 1889 Munich - 1960 ibid. German genre animal and flower painter. 1909-1916 studied at the Munich academy under Gabriel von Hackl and Angelo Jank, master pupil of Heinrich von Zügel. Member of the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands, the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft and the Ausstellungsverband Münchner Künstler, active in Munich.