123 - Werner Rohland (Crimmitschau 1899–1974 Bad Cannstadt), “Card Players,” 1934, oil on canvas, label on the back with work no. “O 2/34,” 47.5 x 59.5 cm, apparently created in response to the work of Cézanne, who produced a series of paintings featuring card players in the 1890s; “the figures have expressionless faces and remain still; the painting conveys no movement and is thus reminiscent of a still life” (Richard Dorment, “Cézanne—The Card Players,” Daily Telegraph, Oct. 25, 2010), illustrated in: *The Painter Werner Rohland 1899–1974*, full-page illustration on page 9, Stuttgart, n.d., in a simple wooden frame, overall size: 50 x 62 cm. Price: 360,-

Werner Rohland (Crimmitschau 1899–1974 Bad Cannstadt), “Card Players,” 1934, oil on canvas, label on the back with work no. “O 2/34,” 47.5 x 59.5 cm, apparently created in response to the work of Cézanne, who produced a series of paintings featuring card players in the 1890s; “the figures have expressionless faces and remain still; the painting conveys no movement and is thus reminiscent of a still life” (Richard Dorment, “Cézanne—The Card Players,” Daily Telegraph, Oct. 25, 2010), illustrated in: *The Painter Werner Rohland 1899–1974*, full-page illustration on page 9, Stuttgart, n.d., in a simple wooden frame, overall size: 50 x 62 cm. Price: 360,- >> German painter and book printer; initially worked as a book printer at C. H. Beck in Nördlingen; self-taught 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 continued his artistic work, In 1948, he moved to Tiefenbach in Baden-Württemberg; in 1950, he became a member of the Neue Stuttgarter Sezession,