4100 - Walther Meinig, Self-Portrait with Children

Walther Meinig, Self-Portrait with Children An expressive self-portrait of the painter holding a brush, standing in front of his easel, with his children behind him, each holding a teddy bear or a doll, a remarkable work from the artist’s early creative period, oil on cardboard mounted on a plywood panel, 1930s, signed ‘Meinig’ in the lower right-hand corner, above which is a partly illegible dedication, presumably for his children: ‘For Roland and Regine [...]’, in need of some restoration, retouched, unframed, dimensions approx. 78.5 x 54.5 cm. Artist’s biography: German painter (1902, Dresden - 1887, Freiburg im Breisgau), studied in Dresden from 1927 to 1929 under Franz Gaudeck, Robert Paul Geißler and Richard Müller; art teacher in Meissen in the early 1930s; took part in the Saxon Art Exhibition in Dresden in 1934 and 1935; from 1949, a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR; in the early years of the GDR, he mainly produced landscape paintings of the Meissen area and depictions of the working class; a member of the Dresden artists’ group ‘Das Ufer’ alongside Rudolf Bergander and Franz Nolde, in 1952 he won the City of Meissen Art Prize; in 1952 he moved to Freiburg im Breisgau, where he subsequently worked primarily as a landscape and still-life painter; Today, his works are held, amongst others, at the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, the Meissen City Museum, the Museum für Neue Kunst in Freiburg and the Dreiländermuseum in Lörrach; over the course of his lifelong creative career, he developed a wide range of subjects, including evocative scenes from the war and post-war periods, Source: Vollmer, Eisold and the *Sächsische Zeitung* of 13 September 2022.