"An image of a windmill in the Neue Sachlichkeit style"

(1887 Wuppertal-Elberfeld – 1946 Wülfrath) Image of a windmill in the Neue Sachlichkeit style. Dollerschell belongs to the group of artists known as the "Lost Generation." He received his artistic education, among other places, at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Angelo Jank and Franz von Stuck, as well as in Paris from 1912. There he met Wilhelm Lehmbruck and in 1912 exhibited his work "Young Parisian" for the first time at the Salon d'Automne. After World War I, Dollerschell moved to Wuppertal, where he lived for several years in Paris from 1927. After 1933, many of his works were declared "degenerate" and removed from public art collections. Most of his works were destroyed during the bombing of Wuppertal in 1943, gouache/paper. Signed and dated (19)27. Tears at the top. 45 cm x 37 cm (cut from mat). Original frame. Provenance: From the collection of an employee of the Von der Heydt Museum and close friend of Mia Dollerschell, the artist's widow; subsequently passed on to the family. Gouache on paper. Signed and dated (19)27. Tears at the top. Original frame.