Lot 89: Walter Schulz-Matan(1889 Apolda - 1965

Walter Schulz-Matan(1889 Apolda - 1965 Schiers/Schweiz). Don Quichotte und Sancho Pansa. 1941 Tempera . Signed lower right. Once more signed on the reverse of the fibreboard. On laid paper, firmly mounted on fibreboard. 50 x 40 cm (19,6 x 15,7 in), size of sheet. Expertise: According to the kind information by Carmen Behrens, Göttingen, the work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné under the no. 401 After serving an apprenticeship as a decoration painter in Mittweida, Walter Schulz-Matan briefly attended the Munich Applied Arts School but from then on was self-taught. Conscripted in 1914, he served throughout the Great War and was not discharged until 1918. He lived in Munich until 1920, exhibiting work at the Hans Goltz Gallery and elsewhere. In 1925 he took part in the important New Objectivity'exhibition at the Mannheim Kunsthalle and also in the November Group'show in Berlin. In 1927 Walter Schulz-Matan lived in Paris and Brittany. A year later he joined the Munich group of artists known as The Seven Painters". A travel grant from the city of Munich enabled him to travel to Spain and Portugal in 1932-33. Long unknown to a broader public, the works Walter Schulz-Matan produced in the New Objectivity style are being rediscovered today and are astonishing for their extraordinary quality. The Munich Stadtmuseum mounted a retrospective commemorating the centenary of the artist's birth in 1989. [LB] Good overall impression. Minimally discoloured. Margins partially minimally rubbed due to the framing.