4504 - Alois Seidl, Still Life with Sunflowers

Alois Seidl, Still Life with Sunflowers Three sunflowers on a table with a transparent water jug; a slightly impasto-like painting with broad brushstrokes, Sunflowers are among the favourite subjects of this Munich-based painter, whose style can best be classified as post-war expressive realism; oil on canvas, signature added later, signed and dated (19)51, slight signs of ageing, frame minimally damaged, inner dimensions 47.5 x 63 cm. Artist information: German landscape and still-life painter (1897 in Munich - 1970 in Munich), self-taught, member of the Neue Secession in Munich, was a friend of Josef Scharl, amongst others, received the Dürer Prize from the City of Nuremberg in 1937, was a professor in Braunschweig; the Lenbachhaus now holds 56 paintings by the artist. Source: Lenbachhaus Munich, Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online and the internet.