Johannes Kühl, Sitting girl. Probably 1940s. Johannes Kühl1922 Dresden - 1994 Bautzen Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. Unsigned. Provenance: Estate of Christoph Kühl, Hannover. Mounting partially detached. The painting layer with cracks, more obvious in the left half of the picture and at the bottom, partly retouched (in the area of the face and the background). Partly with early fading craquelure (in the area of the collar). Dimensions: 64,3 x 49,7 cm. Johannes Kühl 1922 Dresden - 1994 Bautzen 1938-43 Studies at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Prof. R. Schramm-Zittau. 1942 Honorary prize of the city of Dresden. 1943-45 soldier in Denmark, Holland a. France. 1965 Takeover of his father's gallery "Kunstausstellung Kühl" in Dresden. 1992 solo exhibition at the Kupferstich-Kabinett / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

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