4432 - Georg Judersleben, Still Life with Flowers

Georg Judersleben, Still Life with Flowers A lush bouquet of colourful asters in a rustic ceramic vase, painted in a heavily impastoed, colourful style; oil on canvas, mid-20th century, signed lower right, framed in a simple moulding that has since been varnished over, inner dimensions approx. 70 x 60 cm. Artist information: born Georg Arthur Judersleben, German landscape painter and graphic artist, as well as teacher, local historian, and concert and opera singer (1898 Stadtsulza [now Bad Sulza] to 1962 Erfurt), 1913-19: trained as a teacher of mathematics and art at the Weimar Teacher Training College, whilst also training as a concert and opera singer under Quensel, 1919-21: teacher in Bad Sulza; 1921-27: studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar under Max Thedy, Walter Klemm, Felix Meseck and Hugo Gugg; subsequently worked as a teacher and painter in Bad Sulza; from 1945 onwards worked exclusively as a freelance painter; numerous stays at the Ahrenshoop artists’ colony; in 1950, a founding member of the Weimar artists’ cooperative ‘Lucas Cranach’, Member of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR; submitted works to the GDR art exhibitions in Dresden; worked initially in Bad Sulza, later in Erfurt; Source: Vollmer, Saur, *Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Encyclopaedia*; Eisold, *Artists in the GDR*; Jürgen Winter, *Between Forest and World - The Art Scene in Thuringia in the 20th Century...*, exhibition catalogues and the internet.