GEORG PHILIPP WOERLEN (Dillingen at Danube 1886 - 1954 Passau)
Saint Sebastian
woodcut/paper, 28,2 x 23 cm
signed G.Ph.Woerlen, dated 1923
dedicated to s/l Olga, labelled Probedruck

ESTIMATE °€ 80 - 160
STARTING PRICE °€ 80

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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