Lot 224: Woman in a Red Chair

Dülberg, Peter
München 1911 - Stuttgart 1976
Woman in a Red Chair
Oil/canvas, 66,5 x 51,5 cm, lo. ri. monogr. a. dat. PD 35, on the backing cardboard inscr. 'Bild 14: Bildnis E.D. Hamburg 1935'. - German painter a. graphic artist, son of the graphic artist Ewald. D. He studied in Weimar since 1926 a. worked as stage designer a. as assistant director in Berlin. 1930-32 was trained as lithographer in Hamburg, thereafter he could continue his studies under A. Ozenfant in Paris with a scholarship. The major part of of realist-symbolist oeuvre painted in Hamburg since 1933 was lost in WW II. Since 1940 D. was banned from exhibiting. He moved to Stuttgart where he also worked as editor. - Mus.: Stuttgart, Albstadt, Sindelfingen, Milwaukee. - Lit.: Saur, Der Neue Rump.