Walter Schnackenberg (1880 Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains - 1962 Rosenheim) "The demonized apple". Original title Under the branches of an apple tree, as an allegory of the Fall of Man, a faun holds a very delicate beauty in his strong arms. An expressive sheet rich in contrasting colors and lines by Schnackenberg, who trained under Franz von Stuck and became known in particular as an important poster artist, illustrator and caricaturist, but also as a stage and costume designer. Watercolor and pencil/paper or cardboard. Signed and dated lower right. (19)40. Verso studio details and title as well as a detailed note by the artist on the history of the work and further annotations by another hand. Passepartout cut-out 61.5 cm x 46.5 cm. Frame. According to the artist's handwritten notes on the reverse, the present work - together with a portrait of the actress Irene von Meyendorff - was taken down from the wall and removed by the then Minister of State and Gauleiter Adolf Wagner in the summer of 1942 shortly before the start of the exhibition in the Maximilianeum. The present sheet thus represents an art-historically significant contemporary testimony to censorship under the National Socialist regime. Watercolors and pencil on paper or cardboard. Signed and dated (19)40. Inscribed with title and information about the history of the art work on the reverse.