4568 - Rudolf Ausleger, Panel Still Life

Rudolf Ausleger, Panel Still Life with a pear, apple and grapes, with further fruit beneath; a slightly impasto, Cubist still life, partially incised; oil on cardboard; incised signature and date ‘Ausleger (19)32’ in the lower left-hand corner; signs of age, framed behind glass in a black moulding, inner dimensions approx. 29.5 x 29.5 cm. Artist information: German Expressionist painter and graphic artist (1897, Weißenfels - 1974, Berlin); during the First World War, he met the future artists Lothar Homeyer, Karl Jakob Hirsch and Georg Tappert; attended the Reimann School in Berlin-Schöneberg, subsequently studied at the State Art School under Bernhard Hasler and Georg Tappert; member of the November Group; from 1921, a teacher at secondary schools in Berlin and at the Reimann School; during the Nazi era, his works were classified as ‘degenerate’; a large part of his body of work was destroyed during the bombing of Berlin; from 1949 to 1967, a lecturer at the University of Education in Berlin, Source: Wikipedia.