Portrait of a Woman
Albert Birkle (Berlin 1900 - Salzburg 1986)
Lot-No. 5
Charcoal drawing, 29 x 25 cm, lo. ri. monogr. A. B., matted and framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - German-Austrian painter, draughtsman and graphic artist. B. studied at the Berlin academy 1920-25, in 1923 he joined the Berlin secession. He turned down a job offer a professor in Königsberg in 1926 because of many commissions he received. B. was the German exponent of the Venice biennale in 1936, only one year later the same paintings were seized as 'degenerate' by the Nazis. He had settled in Salzburg in 1932 and was naturalized in Austria in 1946. Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Vienna (Albertina), Salzburg, Düsseldorf, Milwaukee a. others. Lit.: AKL, Vollmer a. others.
Albert Birkle: Portrait of a Woman
Albert Birkle (Berlin 1900 - Salzburg 1986)
Portrait of a Woman
Lot-No. 5
Charcoal drawing, 29 x 25 cm, lo. ri. monogr. A. B., matted and framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - German-Austrian painter, draughtsman and graphic artist. B. studied at the Berlin academy 1920-25, in 1923 he joined the Berlin secession. He turned down a job offer a professor in Königsberg in 1926 because of many commissions he received. B. was the German exponent of the Venice biennale in 1936, only one year later the same paintings were seized as 'degenerate' by the Nazis. He had settled in Salzburg in 1932 and was naturalized in Austria in 1946. Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Vienna (Albertina), Salzburg, Düsseldorf, Milwaukee a. others. Lit.: AKL, Vollmer a. others.