4081 - Curt Großpietsch, Floral Still Life

Curt Großpietsch, Floral Still Life a magnificent summer bouquet of lilies, bleeding hearts and delphiniums in a rustic blue-painted pot with a handle, slightly impasto painting in vibrant colours, oil on canvas, circa 1940, signed ‘Curt Großpietsch’ lower right, some signs of wear, framed, inner dimensions approx. 84 x 61.5 cm. Artist information: German painter and graphic artist (1893, Leipzig - 1980, Dresden), member of the ASSO; trained as a varnisher in his father’s business whilst, from 1905 to 1911, attending courses at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts; 1911-14: studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Robert Sterl, Richard Müller and Oskar Zwintscher; formed friendships with Otto Dix and George Grosz whilst there, 1914-19: served as a soldier in the First World War, sustaining serious injuries on several occasions; continued his studies under Otto Gußmann until 1923; from 1921, a member of the artists’ group ‘Die Schaffenden’, 1930-33: Member of the ASSO; from 1933: Member of the NSDAP; as a clerk at the Dresden Kunstkammer, he caused numerous documents belonging to colleagues to disappear, thereby protecting them from reprisals; after 1945: worked as a freelance artist in Dresden, Source: Vollmer, Eisold, *Künstler in der DDR* and Wikipedia.