Louis Scherf - Porcelain Plaque "voluptuousness"

Painted portrait on a porcelain plaque of a semi-nude woman with brown hair, titled Voluptée, titled and signed on the back L. Scherf. Framed, measures 13 x 9 cm and with the frame 17 x 13 cm.

Louis Scherf (1870-1955) was an extremely successful porcelain painter who worked for the Thüringer Porzellanmalerei Lichte (in the town of Lichte, in the state of Thuringia, central Germany). Scherf is known to have used white KPM porcelain as his image support, preferring Berlin porcelain plaques (over Thuringian porcelain plaques). Louis and his brother Albert Scherf (1876-1953) learned painting from Albert Schünze at the Lichte School of Painting and Modeling, founded in Lichte in 1862 with the support of the Prince of Saxe-Meiningen. Louis Scherf's work was recognized at several international exhibitions, including the gold medal at the 1904 World's Fair in Saint-Louis.