Cubist Composition - Fritz Mühsam (1880 -1946)

An oil on canvas measuring 65X50 cm (without the frame) representing a cubist still life made around 1935 by Fritz Mühsam (1880 - 1946). Bears on the back on the frame the stamp of the sale of the F.Muhsam workshop of April 12, 2001.

Fritz Mühsam was born on December 5, 1880 in Hamburg. He spent his youth in Berlin, where his father owned an oil paint factory. In Berlin and then in Munich, Fritz Mühsam studied painting. After his studies, he is a freelance artist in Berlin and in the summer he works in his studio in Fischerhude. He mainly paints portraits, landscapes and still lifes of cubist or expressionist influences. In 1927, he participated in the collective exhibition "European Art of the Present" in Hamburg. He was a full member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund with which he exhibited three times between 1928 and 1931. Mühsam left his Berlin apartment and moved to Paris where he taught the art of modern painting. During World War II, Mühsam was interned in France. He died in Paris in 1946 following a heart attack.