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PAUL KLEINSCHMIDT Landschaft.
Watercolor and pencil on cream wove paper, 1938. 376x470 mm; 14 7/8x18 1/2 inches. Initialed and dated in ink, lower left recto, and dedicated in ink, lower right recto.
The dedication on this watercolor is to the Littmann family from the Kleinshmidt family.
Kleinschmidt (1883-1949) was a student of the Berlin Akademie where he met Lovis Corinth (see lots 22-48 and 470), a central figure of the Berlin Secession movement who encouraged him to move to Munich, where he studied printmaking, and to display his work in the 1908 and 1911 Berlin "Sezession" exhibitions. Kleinschmidt also showed his work in 1925 at Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin, and traveled throughout Germany until the mid-1930s, when the war forced him to seek asylum in the Netherlands. He was taken prisoner in 1940, released, and forced by the Nazis to stop working in 1943. Kleinschmidt likely met the Littmann family in the early 1900s through Corinth and their shared associations with artists in the Berlin "Sezession" movement.
