2192 - Pittermann, Emil Artur

Pittermann, Emil Artur (1885 Pardubice, Bohemia - Beneschau 1936). St. Nicholas Church, Prague, oil/panel, 30 x 24 cm, signed and dated, behind glass in a contemporary, beautiful frame. About the artist: Longen studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, in 1906 he performed together with Eduard Bass in the first Prague cabaret. In 1907, together with Otakar Kubín, Emil Filla and Bohumil Kubista, he took part in the founding and first public exhibition of the Osma group of painters. From 1910, he appeared on the stage with his cabaret program and also made a name for himself in Paris and Berlin. In 1913, he founded his own traveling cabaret, worked at the National Theatre in Slovenia and became director of the Wilde Bühne in Berlin. After the first sound films were made, he appeared as the leading actor in the spy drama Aféra plukovníka Redla in 1931. In the 1930s, Longen wrote comedies with Vlasta Burian.