View of a small Dutch town

(1887 Wuppertal-Elberfeld - 1946 Wülfrath) View of a small Dutch town, an expressionist work by Dollerschells, apparently an artist of the so-called Lost Generation. He received his artistic education, among other places, at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Angelo Jank and Franz von Stuck, and from 1912 lived in Paris. There he met Wilhelm Lehmbruck and in 1912 first presented his work "Young Parisians" at the Salon d'Automne. After World War I, Dollerschells moved to Wuppertal, and in 1923 gained further recognition following a major article about him in the journal "Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration". From 1927, Dollerschells lived in Paris for several years. After 1933, many of his works were deemed "degenerate" and removed from public collections in Germany.

Most of his oeuvre was destroyed during the bombing of Wuppertal in 1943. Gouache on paper, laid on cardboard. Signed and dated (19)27. Dimensions: 37.5 cm x 45.5 cm (image). Framed. Provenance: From the collection of a museum employee at the Von der Heydt Museum and close friend of Mia Dollerschell, the artist's widow; subsequently in family possession.