Watercolor and pencil on cardboard (executed on both sides)
Germany, around 1960
Edvard Frank (1909-1972) – German painter of the artist group ‘Lost Generation’
On one side handwritten inscribed lower right in pencil ‘EF002982’
Sheet dimensions: 28.1 x 36.5 cm
Good condition
A typical work by the German painter of the ‘lost generation’, whose works gained increasing popularity in the recent years; Frank's watercolors fetch up to over €3,000 at international auctions

On both sides of the sheet the German artist has depicted a reclining female nude figure. Leafy, tendril-like branches featuring a natural space in which the figures are situated. The basis for both watercolors is created by a pencil sketch that is executed in a rapid, spare line, and which is accented also sparsely on one side with transparent water colors in pink and tones of green and brown. The second side of the sketch is worked over in much greater detail. The flesh tone of the figure is clearly modeled, the surrounding space is designed stronger. The pencil sketch recede completely behind the painterly design. Both works are very nice and typical compositions of the artist.



The sheet is handwritten inscribed on one side in pencil lower right ‘EF002982’. It is overall hardly noticeably a little unfresh and bears a slight crease in one lower corner. The condition is good. The image measures 27.7 x 35.3 cm, the sheet 28.1 x 36.5 cm.



Edvard Frank (1909-1972)

The German painter Edvard Frank is considered a prominent representative of the ‘lost generation’. This group consisted of artists, musicians and writers from the years 1890 to 1914, whose works were classified as ‘degenerate art’ during the period of nationalism. Mostly, it included the second generation of expressionist artists, as well as artists from the New Objectivity. The art historian Rainer Zimmermann coined the term of ‘expressive realism’, which described some of them. The artists of the ‘lost generation’, in fact, had no unified style, but worked both in the expressive and realistic, as well as in the representational and abstract manner. Edvard Frank was a student of Karl Hofer at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. After the Second World War, he joined the Trier Secession and had increasing success with exhibitions in Germany. His favorite subjects were erotic subjects, showing an influence of the classical canon of forms. Lately, the works of the ‘lost generation’ have again increasing success on the international art market. (fea)

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