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GEORG PHILIPP WOERLEN (Dillingen at Danube 1886 - 1954 Passau)
Bundle of two paintings

Composition I, 1951
wax casein/cardboard 32,2 x 44,2 cm
monogrammed G. Ph. W., dated 1951, verso signed, entitled and dated, G. Ph. Woerlen - Passau/"21 G" 1951
depicted in the catalogue raisonnné, 2020, p. 239

Composition II, 1951
wax casein/cardboard, 32,3 x 44 cm
monogrammed G. Ph. W., dated 51, verso signed, entitled and dated G. PH Wörlen - Passau / "25 G" 1951, gewidmet s/l Olga G. PH. W., depicted in catalogue raisonné, 2020, p. 247
mould stains present

ESTIMATE °€ 800 - 1600
STARTING PRICE °€ 800

German painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. Attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Nuremberg, worked as a restorer in the Altheimer studio in Regensburg. 1920 Returned to Passau, worked as an art teacher at the Gymnasium. Member of the artist group der Fels, as well as Fritz Fuhrken, Franz Bronstert, Reinhard Hilker and Carry Hauser. 1923/24 also member of the group of 6 and from 1947 member of the Donauwaldgruppe, as also Hermann Erbe-Vogel, August Philipp Henneberger, Reinhold Koeppel, Walter Mauder, Wilhelm Niedermayer and Heinz Theuerjahr. 1927 to 1938 also a member of the Hagenbund. Early influences of Impressionism, early 1920s development toward Expressionism and Cubism. In the 1930s works in the style of New Objectivity, then again created Expressionist works. Created landscapes, portraits and nudes and in the late work also abstract works.

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