Möller, Rudolf (1881 Schmiedefeld - 1967 Lörrach)

Lot 2205 limit € 500

Oil/canvas, playing the piano, Martha and Alfred, signed lower right, titled on the reverse of the stretcher and stamped on the canvas with the artist (Rudolf Möller November Gruppe), approx. 77 x 90 cm, with a narrow wooden frame approx. 80 x 93 cm , painter, draftsman and graphic artist, 1905-07 training as a drawing teacher at the Königl. Art school in Berlin, student of Lovis Corinth, practiced the profession at a Berlin high school, from 1916 until its dissolution in 1935 member of the November Group, at the time of National Socialism his works were considered degenerate, active in Dresden since 1940, 1943 expulsion from Dresden leaving behind almost all of his work, after the death of his wife he moved to Lörrach in 1945, provenance: Giorgio Silzer collection