3955 - Emil van Hauth, attributed, Portrait of a Boy

Emil van Hauth, attributed, Portrait of a Boy New Objectivity-style portrait of a boy gazing into the distance, wearing a lace collar; watercolour, c. 1920-30, monogrammed ‘EvH’ in the lower left-hand corner, minor imperfections, mounted in a passe-partout and framed behind glass, sheet dimensions approx. 33 x 26 cm. Artist information: born Gustaf Emil Hoffmann, also known as Hauth-Hegesa, German painter and graphic artist (1899, Mayen - 1974, Munich), spent his childhood in Mayen and Boppard; studied for two years at the Munich School of Applied Arts; interrupted his studies due to military service in the First World War; sustained injuries and was hospitalised in Engers, Koblenz, Kolberg and Andernach; moved to Engers around 1918; 1918-19: student at the Royal School of Ceramics in Höhr-Grenzhausen; subsequently studied at the Darmstadt School of Applied Arts and was a private pupil of Kay Heinrich Nebel; from the early 1920s, used the artist’s name “Emil van Hauth”, 1922: Founding member of the artists’ collective “Das Boot” in Koblenz; 1925: Married the UFA film actress Grit Hegesa and moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he studied under Arthur Segal and became acquainted with Max Beckmann, Ernesto de Fiori, Gustav Gründgens, Emil Nolde, George Grosz and Philipp Harth; in 1926-27, studied in Paris; from 1930, spent time at the Ahrenshoop artists’ colony; member of the November Group and, from 1932, of the Berlin Secession; in 1933, briefly a member of the “Kampfbund für Deutsche Kultur” and a member of the Reich Chamber of Culture; from 1934, increasingly withdrew into internal exile; in 1943, his studio was destroyed by a bombing raid and he moved to Bollendorf in the Eifel, subsequently lived for periods in Neuwied, Königstein im Taunus, Frankfurt am Main and Dießen am Ammersee; settled in Munich from 1953, Source: Vollmer, Zimmermann, *Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation”, Dressler, records of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts, Berlin, and Wikipedia.