4465 - Fritz Nißle, attributed, Urban Scene

Fritz Nißle, attributed, Urban Scene amazed passers-by in a metropolitan setting, presumably Berlin, at the foot of a portico with imposing columns; a glazed, partly slightly impasto style of painting with beautiful lighting; oil on cardboard, circa 1930, signed ‘Nißle’ lower right, slight signs of age, framed, inner dimensions approx. 39 x 30 cm. Artist information: also known as Friedrich Nissle, German architect, senior building officer, sculptor and painter (1889, Berlin - 1977, Minden, Westphalia); trained as an architect and qualified as a graduate engineer; proponent of the ‘Neues Bauen’ movement; member of the Berlin Architects’ Association, active in Berlin-Lichterfelde-West around 1930, later working in Minden and Münster in Westphalia; source: Dressler 1921 and 1930, the 1932 Berlin Address Book, the Architects’ Register and the internet.