4525 - Karl Walther, Villa in the Garden

Karl Walther, Villa in the Garden View of a villa set in a garden laid out in the style of a park, partly coloured in autumnal hues; slightly impasto painting, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘Walther (19)35", slight signs of ageing, framed, inner dimensions approx. 61 x 81 cm. Artist information: German painter (1905, Zeitz - 1981, Seeshaupt); initially trained as a chromolithographer; studied music from 1920 to 1922, followed by self-taught further training in painting; from 1925 studied at the State Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Trade (HGB) in Leipzig under Heinz Dörffel and Fritz Ernst Rentsch; first studio in Leipzig-Leutzsch; from 1929 a pupil of Max Liebermann and Ulrich Hübner in Berlin; in 1930, a study trip to Lake Lugano; in 1931, to Paris; in 1932, to Amsterdam; and in 1933, a study trip to Florence; from 1932 a master student of Max Slevogt; submitted works to various exhibitions, including at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Berlin Secession, the Venice Biennale and, from 1938 to 1943, the Great German Art Exhibitions at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich, here, in 1939, a painting was purchased for the Reich Chancellery; in 1940, he moved to Munich and, in 1943, to Seeshaupt on Lake Starnberg, in 1944, a painting retreat in Würzburg; from 1944, military service in Italy; return to Seeshaupt; regular painting retreats in the Alps, Tyrol (Lake Garda) and Italy; 1974-1976: regular stays in Leipzig and, in 1976, in Berlin; member and vice-president of the Munich Artists’ Cooperative; 1932: Albrecht Dürer Prize and, in 1942, the Veit Stoß Prize from the City of Nuremberg, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur ‘Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists’, Davidson, Grieb ‘Nuremberg Encyclopaedia of Artists’ and the internet.