4103 - Otto Fröhlich, attr., "Die Anprobe"

Otto Fröhlich, attr., "Die Anprobe" young woman in a yellow dress, on a terrace surrounded by flowering shrubs and a castle in the background, slightly impasto painting, oil on canvas, around 1930, on the back of the stretcher a typewritten note " "Die Anprobe" Aus dem Nachlass des Malers Otto Fröhlich, Weimar", traces of age, framed in plain wooden moulding, inner dimensions approx. 57.5 x 47.5 cm. Artist info: actually Robert Heinrich Otto Fröhlich, German painter, book designer, copyist. Painter, book designer, copyist and etcher (1869 Schleiz to 1940 Weimar), studied 1887-95 at the academy in Weimar, 1888-90 under Leopold von Kalckreuth and Carl Frithjof Smith, from 1891 friendship with Rudolf Steiner, travelled to Italy, 1898-99 further training in Munich, temporarily in Stuttgart, attended the major art exhibitions in Berlin, Munich (Glaspalast) and Düsseldorf from 1893, professor at the Weimar School of Art, 1919-20 took over as master at the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar, subsequently freelance in Weimar, maintained friendship with Max Beckmann, created a copy of the Wartburg frescoes, which he completed in 1940, active in Weimar, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Dressler, Müller-Singer, Scheidig "Die Weimarer Malerschule", Bénézit and Wikipedia.