119 - Werner Rohland (Crimmitschau 1899–1974 Bad Cannstadt), “The Blacksmith,” 1939, oil on cardboard, signed and dated in the upper right corner, signed again on the reverse, and bearing a label with the work number "O 6/39," 59 x 73 cm, one of the few paintings created before 1945 that was not destroyed during the Dresden firestorm, mounted in a silver shadow mount, overall dimensions: 64 x 78 cm.

Werner Rohland (Crimmitschau 1899–1974 Bad Cannstadt), “The Blacksmith,” 1939, oil on cardboard, signed and dated in the upper right corner, signed again on the reverse, and bearing a label with the work number "O 6/39," 59 x 73 cm, one of the few paintings created before 1945 that was not destroyed during the Dresden firestorm, mounted in a silver shadow mount, overall dimensions: 64 x 78 cm. - Bibliography: Kreissparkasse Biberach (ed.), Werner Rohland 1899–1974, color illustration on page 65, limit 324,- >> German painter and book printer; initially worked as a book printer at C. H. Beck in Nördlingen; self-taught as a painter; worked as a freelance painter from 1932 onward; founder of the artists’ association “Konstanzer Malgruppe 1938”; returned to Saxony in 1939, drafted into the Wehrmacht as a medic; in 1945, his entire body of work to date was destroyed during the air raid on Dresden; after the war and a year as a prisoner of war in southern France, he returned to Crimmitschau and continued his artistic work, In 1948, he moved to Tiefenbach in Baden-Württemberg; in 1950, he became a member of the Neue Stuttgarter Sezession,