ARTIST: Friedrich Stahl (German, 1863 - 1940)
NAME: Interior Scene with Man and Woman
MEDIUM: gouache on board
CONDITION: Excellent. Framed under glass.
SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 9 inches / 27 x 22 cm
FRAME SIZE: 13 x 11 inches / 33 x 27 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right and on verso
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BIOGRAPHY:
Friedrich Stahl studied at the Munich Academy in 1878 as a pupil of Wilhelm Diez (1839-1907), Ludwig von Lofftz (1845-1910) and Gyula Benczur (1844-1920). At the age of 21 he moved into his own studio in Berlin where he was active from 1886 until 1898. He co-founded the 'Vereinigung der XI' which had its first exhibition in 1892 at the Galerie Schulte in Berlin. He was later appointed as a member of the Society of German Watercolour Painters and for a period was active in the Munich Secession.Stahl traveled to England in 1899 in order to further his interest and study of the Pre-Raphaelites. The interest in Pre-Raphaelite Italian painting that was the foundation of the English brotherhood also became the template for much of his own work for the remainder of his career. The artist subsequently moved to Florence in 1904, where he remained until 1913 studying the works of the early Italian Renaissance.Stahl was pulled in two directions in his career; the pull of society pictures depicting bourgeois subjects with Impressionist influenced brushwork working against his more radical tendency. After a brief time in Munich in 1914 Stahl moved to Feldafing for 12 years. He then returned to Rome in 1925, eventually dying there in 1940 after receiving the Goethe medal under the direction of Martin Bormann.Stahl lived and worked through a tumultuous period of European history and whilst this has cast a shadow over some of his work, his painting is evidence of his pioneering position in German art of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century.