LITHOGRAPH Listed Artist~ GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST ~1920 Pencil Signed BANNED ARTIST

Description: A wonderful early modernist hand colored lithograph by Berlin Secessionist artist Rudolf Grossmann (1882-1941). The image depicts a pair of standing female models and is an ode to 'economy of line', it is from Grossmann's 1920 series of lithographs simply titled "Frauen" (Women). It is hand signed in pencil by the artist and also heightened with a few lines of hand coloring. The image measures approx. 14 x 7 inches, sheet size is approx. 19 x 13 1/2 inches and it is printed in black ink on fine watermarked Perfecta laid paper. Aside from overall light age toning, it is in excellent condition, no mat burn or tape residue and it does not appear to have ever been framed or matted. Rudolf Wilhelm Walther Grossmann (1882-1941) was a German painter and graphic artist. Grossmann was born into an artistic environment. His grandfather, Wilhelm Dürr, was the court painter in Baden and his mother, Marie (1852-1889), was a portrait painter. His father, Viktor, was a doctor, so he initially studied medicine and philosophy in Munich, from 1902 to 1904, then spent five years in Paris, where he was a student of the painter Lucien Simon. While there, he devoted himself primarily to landscape painting, under the influence of Paul Cézanne. With his friend, Jules Pascin, he travelled to Belgium and Holland. Later study trips took him to Northern and Southern France, then to Vienna, Budapest and Stockholm. In 1910, he stayed briefly in Berlin, then continued his travels; this time to Engadin (near Munich), the Tegernsee and Italy, where he lived with his friend, Hans Purrmann. Upon returning to Germany, he lived in Berlin; creating book illustrations and portraits of celebrities, many of which were featured in the satirical magazine Simplicissimus. In 1928, Grossmann was appointed to a prestigious professorship at the Royal School of Art in Berlin. He was also a member of the Berlin Secession and the Deutscher Künstlerbund. After Hitler's rise to power, in 1934, he was dismissed from his professorship and he retired to his hometown. Under the Nazi regime, Grossmann's works were declared to be "degenerate art" and 206 of them were confiscated. Three were put on display at the propagandist Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937. He passed away unheralded in the early years of the war. Works by Grossmann are included in the permanent collections of numerous European museums as well as a number of American museums including; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Price: 185 USD

Location: Spring Hill, Florida

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