Wilhelm Alois Messer, Couple in forest landscape (Adam and Eve after the Fall?). 1921. Wilhelm Alois Messer1900 Würzburg - 1983 Dettelbach. Oil on canvas. Signed "W. Messer" on the right and extensively dated "21. 1. 21". Framed in a wide dark brown oak strip. Slightly soiled. Measures: 100 x 115,5 cm, overall 112,5 x 128 cm. Wilhelm Alois Messer 1900 Würzburg - 1983 Dettelbach German painter and graphic artist. Before the 2nd World War he ran a "studio for religious painting" in the Leistenstraße 80 in Würzburg. During the post-war period he lived in Wiesentheid, where his brother Josef was chaplain 1934-37 and pastor 1940-50.

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