120 - Werner Rohland (Crimmitschau 1899–1974 Bad Cannstadt), “Still Life with White Teapot and Bananas,” 1972, signed and dated on the reverse, with a label bearing the work number “O 17/72,” 60 x 73 cm, a vividly colored still life featuring mundane everyday objects that take on a monumental quality due to the intense colors; set in a white-contrasted silver frame; overall dimensions: 64 x 77 cm. Limit 360,-

Werner Rohland (Crimmitschau 1899–1974 Bad Cannstadt), “Still Life with White Teapot and Bananas,” 1972, signed and dated on the reverse, with a label bearing the work number “O 17/72,” 60 x 73 cm, a vividly colored still life featuring mundane everyday objects that take on a monumental quality due to the intense colors; set in a white-contrasted silver frame; overall dimensions: 64 x 77 cm. Limit 360,- >> 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 beginning in 1932; 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 resumed his artistic work, In 1948, he moved to Tiefenbach in Baden-Württemberg; in 1950, he became a member of the Neue Stuttgarter Sezession,