3802 - Max Brüning, "Reclining Woman with Buddha"

Max Brüning, "Reclining Woman with Buddha" A reclining, scantily clad woman tenderly touching the belly of a Buddha; colour etching on Japanese paper, rolled onto handmade paper, c. 1930, signed ‘Max Brüning’ in lead below the image on the right and inscribed ‘Original-Radierung’ on the left, minor imperfections, framed behind glass, image dimensions approx. 15 x 44 cm. Artist’s biography: German painter, commercial artist, designer and etcher (1887, Delitzsch - 1968, Lindau/Lake Constance); studied from 1902 at the Leipzig Academy under Alois Kolb, later a pupil of Peter Halm in Munich; in 1913 undertook a study tour to France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and Turkey; from 1914 onwards was a master student under Franz von Stuck at the Munich Academy; during the First World War served as art tutor to Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia; worked in Leipzig from 1918 to 1923; moved to Berlin in 1923, where his studio became a much-talked-about attraction; he owned one of the richest collections of Asian art, it became a meeting place for prominent figures from Germany and abroad in the worlds of film, art, sport and politics; after his marriage in 1935, he lived briefly on the Baltic Sea coast and in Oberstdorf, and from 1938 in Igls near Innsbruck, in 1943, approximately 300 etching plates were destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin; in 1945, he was expelled from Austria as a German citizen and settled in Lindau on Lake Constance; in the 1950s, he undertook study trips to Spain and Ticino; 1963: road traffic accident and the end of his artistic career; source: Vollmer, Dressler, the Munich Academy’s register and the internet.