Franz Marx, Still life with zinnias and delphinium. Probably 1930s. Franz Marx1889 Munich - 1960 ibid. Oil on canvas. Signed "Franz Marx" on the right. Slightly soiled. Canvas lower left in the area of a red blossom with deformation, there painting layer with breaks resp. loosened as well as a small missing part. Dimensions: 80,5 x 70,5 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.

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