Cubist Still Life - Fritz Mühsam (1880 -1946)

An oil on canvas measuring 65x50 cm (without the frame) representing a Cubist still life made around 1935 by Fritz Mühsam (1880 - 1946). Door on the back on the chassis the seal of the sale of the workshop F.Muhsam of April 12, 2001.

Fritz Mühsam was born on December 5, 1880 in Hamburg. He spent his youth in Berlin, where his father owned an oil painting factory. In Berlin and Munich, Fritz Mühsam studies painting. After his studies, he is an independent artist in Berlin and in the summer he works in his studio in Fischerhude. He mainly paints portraits, landscapes and still lifes of Cubist or Expressionist influences. In 1927 he participated in the collective exhibition "European Art of the Present" in Hamburg. He is a full member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund with which he exhibits three times between 1928 and 1931. Mühsam leaves his Berlin apartment and settles in Paris where he teaches the art of modern painting. During the Second World War, Mühsam was interned in France. He died in Paris in 1946 following a heart attack.