Watercolor
Signed lower left. On structured laid paper. 56,5 x 39 cm (22,2 x 15,3 in), the full sheet
Verso: Still life with flower pots. Watercolor.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.

Alwin Stützer began his career as an artist at the age of 24. However, his first encounters with the Munich art scene were suddenly interrupted by the beginning of World War I. Severely wounded, he returned to Munich in 1918. He rented a studio in Goethestraße, which was also were this expressionist self portrait with a view from his studio's window was made. After he had participated in an exhibition in the 'Glaspalast' his career took off, several of his works were purchased by museums. In the early 1930s, Stützer, who was in an environment of artists such as Georg Schrimpf und Max Unold, turned to an image concept that followed New Objectivity. In World War II he was active as a war painter. Upon his return he found his studio in Goethestraße and all of the works from his early period of creation destroyed, however, Stützer was able to continue his success of the days from before the war. His style developed and he attained a form of landscape painting that reaches into the realms of abstraction and which made him famous far beyond the borders of his home in Lower Bavaria. [SM].