Max Stern, attr., Männergesellschaft

Max Stern, attr., Männergesellschaft
Max Stern, attr, Männergesellschaft
Gentlemen discussing at a table over a glass of champagne, charcoal and white chalk on paper, inscribed, dated and signed lower left "München (18)99 M. Stern", framed under mount and behind glass, mount approx. 35,5 x 43,5 cm. Artist info: GermanJewish painter, draughtsman and graphic artist (1872 Düsseldorf to 1943 Düsseldorf), studied 1888-92 at the academy of arts in Düsseldorf under Hugo Crola, Heinrich Lauenstein, Adolf Schill, Peter Janssen and Eduard von Gebhardt, 1892-94 further education in Munich among others 1893 under Carl von Marr, 1894-95 military service, 1995 study visit of several months in Venice, later regular study trips to Italy, Holland (Amsterdam, Katwijk), Belgium, Switzerland, Alsace-Lorraine and France (Paris), from 1893 member of the Munich Secession, whose exhibitions he attended, from 1910 contact with the art dealer and collector Alfred Flechtheim, 1914-18 as a non-commissioned officer in the First World War. In the 1920s Stern turned to the New Objectivity, after 1933 he was banned from his profession and defamed as "degenerate", from 1895-1930/31 he was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association "Malkasten", was still able to exhibit in 1933-36 due to the support of the Kunstverein der Rheinlande and the Jüdischer Kulturbund, during the November pogroms in 1938 the SA looted Stern's house, as a result the painter lived in hiding with his family in Düsseldorf, member of the Rheinische Sezession and the artists' association "Das junge Rheinland", active in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, Source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Bruckmann "Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule", Dressler, lists of pupils of the Düsseldorf Academy, Boetticher, Müller-Singer, Bénézit and Wikipedia.