142 - Alois Erbach (Wiesbaden 1888–1972 Wiesbaden), “Symphony of Big and Small Things,” 1949/50, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, signed, dated, and titled again on the reverse, 87 x 67 cm; at the end of World War II, Erbach returned to Germany and turned his attention once again more strongly toward Surrealism, no reserve, limit 360,-

Alois Erbach (Wiesbaden 1888–1972 Wiesbaden), “Symphony of Big and Small Things,” 1949/50, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, signed, dated, and titled again on the reverse, 87 x 67 cm; at the end of World War II, Erbach returned to Germany and turned his attention once again more strongly toward Surrealism, no reserve, limit 360,- >> German painter and draftsman; after completing an apprenticeship as a surveying technician, he studied at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich beginning in 1908; friend of John Heartfield; in the 1920s, he created socially critical caricatures for various satirical magazines; Arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 on the evening of the Reichstag fire; from 1937 to 1945, Erbach lived in Mallorca after five of his works had been removed from public museums and destroyed.