4497 - Paul Schmolling, Two Nude Backs in the Landscape

Paul Schmolling, Two Nude Backs in the Landscape Two nude women seated on a white cloth, seen from behind, gazing out into the vast landscape; slightly impasto painting; the sky rendered in pastel colours, oil on canvas, signed lower left, old annotations on the reverse, signs of age, unframed, inner dimensions 45.5 x 60 cm. Artist’s biography: German painter and graphic artist (1892, Brandenburg an der Havel - 1965, Traisa near Darmstadt), studied at the training institute of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts under Emil Orlik and undertook art history studies at the University of Berlin, member of the November Group, worked in Berlin and subsequently lived in Insterburg/East Prussia and Elmshorn, In 1937, two of his works were confiscated as part of the ‘Degenerate Art’ campaign; in 1940, he took part in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich; member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts; source: Vollmer and Wikipedia.