"Image of a windmill in the style of Neue Sachlichkeit"

(1887 Wuppertal-Elberfeld – 1946 Wülfrath) Depiction of a windmill in the style of Neue Sachlichkeit. 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 first exhibited his work "Young Parisian" at the Salon d'Automne. After World War I, Dollerschell moved to Wuppertal, where he lived for several years in Paris starting in 1927. After 1933, many of his works were deemed "degenerate" and removed from public art collections. Much of his oeuvre was destroyed during the bombing of Wuppertal in 1943. Gouache/paper. Signed and dated (19)27. Tears at the top. 45 cm x 37 cm (mat opening). Original frame. 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 passed down through the family. Gouache on paper. Signed and dated (19)27. Tears at the top. Original frame.