4428 - Albert Heinzinger, Floral Still Life

Albert Heinzinger, Floral Still Life On a table with a white tablecloth: a bouquet of white pansies and red flowers, a red book, a floor lamp and a purple ceramic vase, impasto painting, a very early work from the period immediately following the end of the Second World War by the future president of the New Munich Artists’ Cooperative, oil on cardboard, signed and dated (19)45, signs of wear, white and gold frame, inner dimensions 64 x 48 cm. Artist information: German painter and illustrator (1911 in Kempten - 1992 in Utting am Ammersee), a student at the Academy under Ludwig von Herterich; between 1938 and 1941, a political prisoner at the Papenburger Moor concentration camp due to his membership of the Socialist Workers’ Youth; attended a private art school during the Second World War; 1946-1948: studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Adolf Schinnerer; in 1958, co-founder of the New Realism group; from 1970, president of the New Munich Artists’ Cooperative; in 1968, recipient of the City of Munich’s Water Lily Prize; 1971 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class. Source: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online and the website of the Munich Nazi Documentation Centre.