Leo von König

König, Leo von

German painter (1871-1944). Autograph quotation signed. Schlachtensee. 15.03.1918. Oblong 8vo (postcard). 1 page.
$ 195 / 180 € (84525/BN55032)

Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau: "In der Kunst pflegen die Theorien da einzusetzen, wo die Kalorien aussetzen [...]". - A member of the Berlin Secession, König studied the impressionist masters in Berlin and Paris, taught at the Berlin Kunstgewerbeschule, and specialized in portraiture. His oeuvre includes paintings of the writer Gerhard Hauptmann (1862-1946) and the painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956). - Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.

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