EUGEN CROISSANT* (Landau in der Pfalz 1898 - 1976 Breitbrunn at Chiemsee) Eugen Croissant Say it with flowers! ...

EUGEN CROISSANT* (Landau in der Pfalz 1898 - 1976 Breitbrunn at Chiemsee)
Eugen Croissant
Say it with flowers!, 1934
mixed media/pape, r 38 x 27,5 cm
dated 1934
design for "Fliegenden Blaetter"

ESTIMATE °€ 400 - 800
STARTING PRICE °€ 400

The German painter and caricaturist first studied in Munich under Julius Diez and Willi Geiger, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Karl Caspar. Croissant remained in Munich as a freelance artist. In the 1920s and 1930s he went on painting trips to France, Greece, North Africa and the Balkans. He was a member of the German Artists' Association under Max Liebermann, the Munich New Secession and the New Group. In 1937, as part of the “Degenerate Art” campaign, the National Socialists confiscated Croissant’s oil painting “Tegernsee” from the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich. Many of his watercolors were destroyed in the fire of the Munich Glass Palace in 1931 or in the destruction of his studio in 1943. On his 70th birthday, Croissant became an honorary member of the Society of Heinrich von Zügel Friends. In 1975 he received the painting prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.

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