3969 - Curt Lahs, Lovers

Curt Lahs, Lovers a suggested interior with windows and a couple kissing, gouache on paper, mid-20th century, signed ‘Curt Lahs’ in pencil in the bottom right-hand corner, framed with a passe-partout and under glass, mat cut-out approx. 21.5 x 27.5 cm. Artist information: German painter (1893 Düsseldorf - 1958 Berlin), group exhibition at the Flechtheim Gallery in Düsseldorf in 1919; from 1921 a member of the artists’ group ‘Das Junge Rheinland’; moved to Colombia in 1928 and became a professor and director at the Academia de pintura y escultura of the Instituto Bellas Artes in Medellín; returned to Germany in 1930 and became a professor at the State Art School in Berlin; dismissed from his teaching post in 1933; from 1950, professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin; source: Wikipedia.