Klaus Fußmann (1938 Velbert/Rhineland - Active in Berlin and Gelting) Dahlias A garden still life painted with an expressively luminous palette and a powerful, broad style by Fußmann, who since 1977 has intensively explored the pictorial theme of the flower still life, preferably with garden flowers, thus following the tradition of Emil Nolde. Fußmann studied at the Folkwang School in Essen from 1957 to 1961 and at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts from 1962 to 1966. In 1972, he found his painter's paradise in Gelting, Schleswig-Holstein, and has been commuting between the Baltic Sea and Berlin ever since. In the same year, Fußmann was awarded the Villa Romana Prize and exhibited at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which was his breakthrough. From 1974-2005 he taught as a professor at the Berlin Art Academy. After numerous solo exhibitions, his oeuvre was shown in comprehensive exhibitions on the occasion of his 70th and 80th birthday, including at the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum of Art and Cultural History in Gottorf Castle and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam. The central motifs of his paintings, watercolors and prints are, in addition to the Schleswig-Holstein landscape, in particular spring and summer flowers as well as details from his garden in Gelting, often with intense colors. Watercolor and oil on paper, signed and dated on bottom right. (20)21. Approx. 41.5 cm x 55 cm. Frame. Watercolor and oil on paper. Signed and dated (20)21.