"Expressive still life with mallow and gladioli: a famous work by Fussmann."

Born in 1938 in Velbert/Rhineland, residing in Berlin and Gelting, the artist presents "Garden with Mallows, Sunflowers, and Gladioli" as an expressive, flatly composed, and brightly colored garden still life, which counts among the representative works of his oeuvre. Fußmann, trained from 1957-1966 at the Folkwang School in Essen and the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, received the Villa Romana Prize in 1972 and exhibited in the New National Gallery in Berlin in the same year, which made him known to a wider art audience. From 1974 to 2005, he worked as a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. After numerous solo exhibitions, his oeuvre was shown in comprehensive retrospectives on the occasion of his 70th and 80th birthdays, including at the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Gottorf Castle and the Barberini Museum in Potsdam. The central motifs of his paintings, watercolors, and graphics are, besides the Schleswig-Holstein landscape, especially spring and summer flowers as well as excerpts from his garden in Gelting, often characterized by intense colorfulness. Pastel on laid paper. Signed and dated 1995. 75 cm x 76.2 cm. Framed. The work belongs to the works presented in the picture gallery on Prof. Dr. Klaus Fußmann's website. Provenance: From the estate of a private collection in North Rhine-Westphalia.