4493 - Herbert Rolf Schlegel, Girls at Lake Ammersee

Herbert Rolf Schlegel, Girls at Lake Ammersee two young blonde women in light summer dresses, picking flowers in a sunny summer landscape with Lake Ammersee in the background; a painting rendered in fine detail with a fine-tipped brush, with a slightly impasto texture, oil on canvas, c. 1940, monogrammed ‘HR S’ in ligature in the lower left-hand corner, numbered, signed and inscribed with the location ‘1200. Herbert Rolf Schlegel - Schondorf am Ammersee”, and on the stretcher a stamp from a Munich art supplies shop; signs of age; framed in modern times; inner dimensions approx. 120.5 x 100.5 cm. Artist’s biography: German painter of the New Objectivity movement (1889, Breslau - 1972, Landsberg am Lech); completed a commercial apprenticeship; attended the School of Applied Arts in Düsseldorf in 1909-10; 1910-11: studied at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar; 1913-21, with an interruption due to the First World War, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel whilst simultaneously training as a teacher; 1921-23: based in Kassel as a painter; from 1924: worked in St. Georgen am Ammersee; 1932-40: took over the pottery in Schondorf; Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer and Wikipedia.