3818 - Paul Herrmann, Oriental Scene

Paul Herrmann, Oriental Scene Two women in Oriental dress resting on a bed of blankets and cushions; a work executed in subtle tones, etching with subtle flat tones on handmade paper, c. 1910, signed ‘Paul Herrmann’ in lead below the image on the right, slight signs of wear, image dimensions approx. 25.5 x 23 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 38 x 50 cm. Artist information: born Paul Lorenz Otto Heinrich Herrmann, also known as Henri Héran, German painter and printmaker (1864, Munich - 1940, Berlin), grew up in the circle of his uncle Paul Heyse; intended to study architecture, but took painting lessons in secret, leading to a falling-out with Heyse, later a pupil at Max Ebersberger’s painting school and, for two years, a pupil of Ferdinand Barth; briefly enrolled at the Munich Academy in 1883; later a panorama painter and restorer of frescoes in Bavaria and Swabia; subsequently spent several years in New York and Chicago (World’s Fair 1893), moved to Paris in 1895 and adopted the artist’s name “Henri Héran”, where he moved in the circle of friends around Edvard Munch, Strindberg and Oscar Wilde; in 1906, he moved to Berlin, where he created, amongst other works, ceiling paintings for the Adlon and Eden hotels, and worked for the magazines “Pan” and “Le Centaure”; received various honours, including the Berlin Golden State Medal and, in 1914, the Saxon State Medal as well as the Grand Honorary Prize of the City of Leipzig; member of the Association of Berlin Artists, the Free Association of Graphic Artists in Berlin and the Munich Secession, Source: Thieme-Becker, Singer, Dressler, Register of the Munich Academy, Records of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in Berlin and the internet.