3975 - Carlo Mense, attributed, Rest on the Flight

Carlo Mense, attributed, Rest on the Flight Mary with the Infant Jesus and Joseph with a donkey, on a mountain meadow in front of a steep rock face, beneath a sky illuminated by the light of the fading day, pastel, monogram and dated ‘CM 46’ in the lower right-hand corner, monogrammed and dated again on the passe-partout, minor imperfections, framed under passe-partout and behind glass, passe-partout dimensions approx. 38.5 x 28.5 cm. Artist information: German painter and graphic artist (1886, Rheine - 1965, Königswinter); on the advice of August Macke, studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Peter Janssen from 1906 to 1908; came into contact with the reform movement at Monte Veritá during a study trip to Ascona; from 1908, studied under Lovis Corinth in Berlin, followed by further studies in Weimar and Munich; returned to the Rhineland in 1910 and became a member of the ‘Cölner Sezession’, in 1912, took part in the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, became acquainted with Herwarth Walden and worked for the magazines ‘Die Aktion’ and ‘Der Sturm’; in 1918, joined the ‘Das Junge Rheinland’ association and the ‘November Group’; 1919: following his marriage, frequent stays in Munich and close acquaintance with Paul Klee, Georg Schrimpf, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Seewald and Alexander Kanold; in 1925, appointed professor at the Breslau Academy of Fine Arts, where he formed friendships with Oskar Schlemmer and Oskar Moll; in 1933, awarded the Villa Romana Prize; 1937: Branded a ‘degenerate artist’ and 34 of his paintings destroyed; his studio was destroyed during the bombing of Cologne in the Second World War. Source: Wikipedia.