3963 - Max Kaus, Dunes on Sylt

Max Kaus, Dunes on Sylt View of the sparsely vegetated dunes with the sea in the background; probably created during his annual stays on Sylt; fibre-tip pens and chalks on paper; signed ‘M Kaus’ in the bottom left-hand corner, dated "(19)66" and inscribed "Sylt", gallery label on the reverse reading "Commetersche Kunsthandlung Hamburg", slight signs of wear, mounted in a passe-partout and framed behind glass, sheet dimensions approx. 29.5 x 40.5 cm. Artist’s biography: German painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and illustrator (1891, Berlin - 1977, Berlin); initially completed a painting apprenticeship; 1908-13, student at the training institute of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts; established his own studio in 1913; 1913-14: studied at the Academy in Berlin under Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in 1914, he went to Paris on a travel grant; from 1920, he was a member of the ‘Freie Sezession’ and became acquainted with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Otto Mueller; he also remained a member of the ‘Berliner Sezession’ and the ‘Münchner Expressionistische Werkstätten’, from 1926, lecturer at the School of Applied Arts and Crafts in Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1936-39: Professor at the United State Schools in Berlin; 1945-59: Professor and Deputy Director of the Berlin University of the Arts; member of the “Neue Gruppe” in Berlin; received various honours, including the Albrecht Dürer Prize from the City of Nuremberg in 1927 and the Villa Romana Prize in 1929; his works are held in numerous museums, including the National Gallery and the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, the Städel Institute in Frankfurt am Main, the Moritzburg Museum in Halle, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, as well as museums in Stettin, Erfurt and the USA (Detroit); he was a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany and the German Artists’ Association in Weimar; sources: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Goldstein and the internet.