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Otto Maria Porsche, Hexentanz At the gnarled roots of a tree in the twilight, the devil in a red robe watches two ecstatically dancing beauties, on the right an old witch, her wand raised, enchanting the two dancers, at her feet all kinds of animals, including a dog, cat and mouse, the setting is possibly the Brocken in the Harz Mountains, mystifying painting in muted colours and in an imposing format, oil on panel, early 20th century, signed "Otto Porsche" lower left, label of the Munich frame shop "Emil Plesko" on the reverse of the frame, isolated retouches, small colour flaw in the sky upper right, magnificent contemporary frame, rebate dimensions approx. 85 x 66 cm. Artist information: actually Otto Maria Porsche, Sudeten German painter, illustrator and interior designer (1858 Jablonné v Podještědí [Engl.Gabel in Bohemia] to 1931 Munich), initially studied for five years at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague under Emil Reynier, 1890-94 further training at the Munich Academy under Gabriel von Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez, then professor at the Munich Academy, supplied the Munich Glass Palace and the 1912 Venice Biennale, member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative, the General German Art Cooperative, the Reich Association of Visual Artists in Germany and the New Munich Artists' Cooperative, active in Munich, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Wikipedia, Matrikel der Münchner Akademie, Dressler, Müller-Singer, Bruckmann "Münchner Maler des 19./20th century", Ries and Richard Baumgart in "Die Kunst für alle". 40th year 1924-1925, issue 5, Munich February 1925.

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Otto Maria Porsche, Hexentanz At the gnarled roots of a tree in the twilight, the devil in a red robe watches two ecstatically dancing beauties, on the right an old witch, her wand raised, enchanting the two dancers, at her feet all kinds of animals, including a dog, cat and mouse, the setting is possibly the Brocken in the Harz Mountains, mystifying painting in muted colours and in an imposing format, oil on panel, early 20th century, signed "Otto Porsche" lower left, label of the Munich frame shop "Emil Plesko" on the reverse of the frame, isolated retouches, small colour flaw in the sky upper right, magnificent contemporary frame, rebate dimensions approx. 85 x 66 cm. Artist information: actually Otto Maria Porsche, Sudeten German painter, illustrator and interior designer (1858 Jablonné v Podještědí [Engl.Gabel in Bohemia] to 1931 Munich), initially studied for five years at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague under Emil Reynier, 1890-94 further training at the Munich Academy under Gabriel von Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez, then professor at the Munich Academy, supplied the Munich Glass Palace and the 1912 Venice Biennale, member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative, the General German Art Cooperative, the Reich Association of Visual Artists in Germany and the New Munich Artists' Cooperative, active in Munich, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Wikipedia, Matrikel der Münchner Akademie, Dressler, Müller-Singer, Bruckmann "Münchner Maler des 19./20th century", Ries and Richard Baumgart in "Die Kunst für alle". 40th year 1924-1925, issue 5, Munich February 1925.

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