Birkle, Albert (1900 Berlin - 1986 Salzburg)

Lot 1822 limit € 800

Watercolour, depiction of a woman sitting, verso inscribed "Elisabeth" and signed, probably the artisan Elisabeth Starosta, who was married by the artist in 1924, signed in lead lower left and dated 1932, paper slightly stained in front of cardboard, framed behind glass, sheet approx. 60 x 43.5 cm, with frame approx. 79 x 61 cm, Albert Birkle was born the first son of an artist family in Berlin-Charlottenburg and began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in his father's business after the end of the First World War. Birkle studied at the Berlin Academy from 1920 to 1925 and was accepted as the youngest member of the "Berlin Secession" and of the "Prussian Academy of Arts" headed by Max Liebermann as president professorship at the Königsberg Academy in order to be able to devote himself entirely to his painting, in 1932 e r to Salzburg, in 1936 Birkle represented Germany at the Venice Biennale, he received Austrian citizenship in 1946 and worked in his new adopted country primarily as a religious glass painter again socially critical tendencies