Erich Erler (Frankenst./Schles. 1870 - Icking/München 1946) - Sell & Buy

German landscape and figure painter, brother of Fritz E. After being trained as type setter E. took drawing lessons under A. Bräuer. To cure a lung disease he moved to Samaden in the Engadin in Switzerland in 1898. In 1901 he joined the Munich artist's group 'Scholle', in 1912 the Munich secession. Mus.: Munich (Lenbachhaus a. others), Aachen (Suermondt-Ludwig-Mus.), Wuppertal (Von der Heydt-Mus.), Los Angeles, Leipzig, Breslau, Regensburg a. others. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Vollmer a. others.