Hans Unger, Woman's head. Probably about 1920. Hans Unger1872 Bautzen - 1936 Dresden. Oil on hardboard. Signed u.r. "Unger". Verso signed (?) again faintly visible on the backing and inscribed above in ballpoint pen probably by another hand. O.l. numbered "5" in red crayon. In profiled, wide wooden frame with red-gold leaf-metal overlay. Painting ground and varnish yellowed, thus horizontal stripes. Slightly foxed. Fine varnish craquelure. Pastosities with small paint layer flaws. Partially scratched and superficially applied whitish spots in the area of the right half of the face as well as on the upper right. In the marginal areas on the recto and verso small nail and tear holes, probably inherent to the work. Corners somewhat frayed, lower right with crease. Frame with missing parts of the frame, small loosenings and partially retouched. At the upper and lower edge approx. 4 cm of the painting covered by framing. Dimensions: 49,5 x 34,7 cm, frame 55,5 x 45,5 cm. Hans Unger 1872 Bautzen - 1936 Dresden 1887-92 Apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Bautzen. 1888-93 student at the painter's hall of the Royal Dresden Court Theatre. 1892-96 studied at the academy of arts in Dresden under Friedrich Preller the Younger and Heinrich Prell. In 1897 the first painting "Die Muse" was purchased by the Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister. 1897/98 studied at the Académie Julian in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. 1899 Unger had his own room at the German Art Exhibition in Dresden. Member of the "Deutscher Künstlerbund", founded in 1903, the "Goppelner Malerschule" and the "Dresdner Sezession". After 1906 appointment as professor. 1912 own room in the newly opened Bautzen City Museum. 1917 participation in the exhibition of the Dresdner Kunstgenossenschaft. 1933 the "Sächsischer Kunstverein" organized a last big exhibition on the occasion of his 60th birthday.