Untitled (abstract composition of colors and forms), 1951 Watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower center. Dimensions: paper H22.5" x W 15" Condition: slight water damage. Note: "Otto Nebel married Hildegard Heitmeyer, the assistant of Gertrud Grunow 1924. He met Hildegard at the Bauhaus in Weimar. They stayed in Weimar until 1925 where painted, wrote poems and acted. 1933 when the National Socialists disparaged his work as degenerated art he left Germany for Switzerland. First in Muntelier later in Bern. Nebel had financial problems because he was not allowed to work in Switzerland. Thanks to the effort of Wassily Kandinsky he could regularly sell some of his paintings to theSolomon R. Guggenheim Foundation between 1936 and 1951. The German Federal Republic awarded Otto Nebel with The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1965"

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