Rudolf Poeschmann, "At the mirror". View into sunny, stately interior, with bouquet of roses in front of golden baroque mirror, low impasto painting, oil on canvas, circa 1930, signed and place-named "Rud. Poeschmann Dresden" on the lower right, titled "Am Spiegel" and signed "Rud. Poeschmann Dresden A 24" on the reverse, in gold stucco frame, folding dimensions approx. 68 x 50.5 cm. Artist info: actually Karl Julius Rudolf Poeschmann, also Rudolph, Germ. Landscape and genre painter (1878 Plauen/Vogtland to 1954 Dresden), childhood in Plauen, here encouraged by the drawing teacher Hermann Reinstein (1844-1935), then private student of a Munich art school, studied from 1896 at the Academy in Munich with Johann Caspar Herterich, from 1897 studied at the Academy in Dresden with Carl Bantzer and master student with Gotthard Kuehl, then freelance in Dresden, regular summer study trips through Saxony (especially the Vogtland, Erzgebirge and Lusatia), to Franconia, the Harz Mountains as well as Austria, Holland, France (Paris) and Switzerland, attended various exhibitions such as the Glaspalast Munich, member of the Munich Artists' Association, the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands, the Dresden Artists' Association, the Dresden "Märzbund" and the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft, active in Dresden, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Dressler, Müller-Singer, Matrikel der Dresdner und der Münchner Akademie, Glaspalast catalogs and Frank Weiß "Malerei im Vogtland".