648 - Walther Firle, Interior with a Man Repairing a Fish Trap, oil painting, framed

Walther Firle, Interior with a Man Repairing a Fish Trap, oil painting, framed Walther Firle, also known as Walter Firle, 1859 Breslau - 1929 in Munich, German portrait and genre painter, here: A view of an interior. A man sits in front of a large tiled stove, repairing a fish trap by candlelight, oil on canvas, 83 x 61 cm, signed on the left, from the collection of Otto Weigand, Saarbrücken About the artist: Walther Firle began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1879; his teachers included Alois Gabl, Gabriel von Hackl and Ludwig von Löfftz. In 1882, he abandoned his studies for financial reasons. In the years that followed, he travelled to Italy and the Netherlands before settling in Munich. There, he painted genre scenes and works with religious themes and became a member of the Munich Artists’ Cooperative. His first significant painting is considered to be *Morning Prayer in a Dutch Orphanage*, which was acquired by the National Gallery in Berlin. In 1890, he was appointed Royal Professor. Firle also devoted himself to portrait painting, depicting, amongst others, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria, Count Nikolaus von Seebach, Ludwig III of Bavaria and Reich President Paul von Hindenburg.