oil on panel signed upper left

53 x44 cm. 67 x 58 cm. (with frame)

Provenance: Christie's Amsterdam, PICTURES, WATERCOLOURS AND DRAWINGS 04 Jul 2000, lot 384

Hermann Groeber (Wartenberg 1865-1935 Gstaadt) was a impressionists and post-impressionistis German painter who was known throughout Germany as a portraitist and landscape artist. He gained early success as a self-employed painter. From 1883 to 1886 he studied in Munich, making several study trips to Holland, Northern Italy and Paris, where the young painter came into contact with European artistic movements. Hermann Groeber is most frequently exhibited in Italy, but also had exhibitions in Germany. Especially from his first exhibtion to 1920 he was very popular.

He joined the German Association of Artists, and after Ludwig Schmid-Reutte was appointed to Karlsruhe, Groeber took over his class of nude acts, which soon enjoyed great popularity. In 1907 he became head of the nude class at the Munich Academy and was appointed full professor there in 1911.