Max Nehrling, Still Life with Bread and Wine
Arrangement of bread and wine bottle in front of violet-black ...

Max Nehrling, Still Life with Bread and Wine
Arrangement of bread and wine bottle in front of violet-black striped cloth, brisk still life painting with agitated brushwork, oil on cardboard, 1st half 20th century, signed lower left "M Nehrling", some paint rubbing, unframed, dimensions approx. 41.5 x 54 cm. Artist's info: Germ. Painter and graphic artist (1887 Posen to 1957 Weimar), from 1899 attended the Grand Ducal Free School of Drawing in Weimar, from 1902 apprenticeship as lithographer in Weimar, 1908-09 worked as lithographer in Heilbronn, 1909-10 worked as draughtsman in a studio in Brussels, from 1911 studies at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art Academy in Weimar with Otto Rasch, Geri Melchers, Walther Klemm and Fritz Mackensen, 1914/15 founds the 'Artists' Colony Föhlritz' together with Rudolf Riege and Gottlieb Krippendorf, 1914-18 soldier in World War 1. World War I, from 1919 studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar with Johannes Itten and Walther Klemm, 1921 transferred to the State Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar, from 1929 worked as a freelance artist, at the end of the 1930s withdrew from the art business, member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts, member of the VBK of the GDR, study trip to the Netherlands, from 1956 received the honorary pension of the GDR for his artistic life's work, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler and Wikipedia.