172 - Herbert Grass, Girl with Long Braids, oil painting from 1918, in its original frame

Herbert Grass, Girl with Long Braids, oil painting from 1918, in its original frame Herbert Grass, 1886 Mannheim - 1978 Heidelberg, German painter, Girl with Long Braids, playing in a tree; with an early summer hilly landscape on the right, oil on stiff cardboard, 75 x 50 cm, signed and dated lower right 1918, in the original silver-coloured wooden frameAbout the artist: Herbert Grass studied at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, where he was particularly influenced by Max Klinger; as a painter, he was self-taught. In 1914 he married in Leipzig and subsequently moved to Heidelberg, where he remained until the end of his life. Herbert Grass primarily created portraits, still lifes and landscapes, mostly in a late-Impressionist style. In 1933, 1939 and 1941, his work was featured in the ‘Oberrheinische Kunstausstellungen’ in Baden-Baden; in 1937, Herbert Grass held a major solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Mannheim.