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GEORG PHILIPP WÖRLEN (Dillingen an der Donau 1886 - 1954 Passau)

Veste Niederhaus, Passau, 1945
watercolor/paper 19,8 x 26 cm
signed G. Ph. Wörlen, dated 45
inscribed Passau

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 500 - 800
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 500

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. The Veste Niederhaus (Niederhaus castle), built around 1250, is a castle located in Passau on the tip of the rocky promontory at the confluence of the Ilz and Danube rivers, below the Oberhaus fortress. The promontory, as well as the right bank of the Ilz River to the north, belongs to the Bschütt district in Passau's Altstadt (Old Town). Weiterführende Künstler und Begriffe: Ölmalerie, Stadtansicht, Stillleben, Expressionismus, Kubismus, Landschaft, Illustration, Friedrich Aduatz, Eduard Ameseder, Robin Christian Andersen, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Leopold Blauensteiner, Hans Bren, Georg Ehrlich, Carl Fahringer, Josef Floch, Beni Ferenczy, Tibor Gergely, Gustav Gurschner, Felix Albrecht Harta, Karl Hauk, Carry Hauser, Wilhelm Hejda, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Rudolf Junk, Maximilian Kahrer, Eduard Kasparides, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Oskar Laske, Heinrich Lefler, Georg Mayer-Marton, Karl Mediz, Georg Merkel, Carl O’Lynch of Town, Ernst Paar, Anton Peschkam Robert Philippi, Michael Powolny, Heribert Potuznik, Lois Pregartbauer, Maximilian reinitz, Heinrich Revy, Albert Reuss, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg, Maximilian Suppantschitsch, Eduard Thöny, Viktor Tischler, Georg Philipp Wörlen, Bettina Ehrlich, Anna Lesznai, Louise Merkel-Romée, Frieda Salvendy, Lilly Steiner

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