The impressionist work of Shellkopf exploded Fauvism

(1888 Nuremberg - 1982 Gerlingen) Bathing Women on Lake Ammersee. An early, cheerful summer work by Schellkopf, who studied from 1907 to 1914 at the Stuttgart Academy under the Impressionists Christian Landenberger and Robert Pötzelberger. Since 1913, he participated in numerous exhibitions. In his further artistic development, he was initially influenced by the Expressionists and Adolf Hölzel, and from 1935 his work was defined by French modernist art, Henri Matisse, and Fauvist artists such as Raoul Dufy. Oil on canvas, restored; signed and dated 1914. 52 cm x 39.5 cm. In a frame.