BAIERL, THEODOR (1881-1932)

"Der Gitarrist" (c.1900)
pastel
32 x 41cm
signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
Theodor Baierl was an important, well-regarded German fresco and classical artist, and a prominent member of the Munich Secession, a contemporary Franz Von Stuck and Gustav Klimt. Inspired by Albrecht Durer, he became a successful and well known church fresco painter, and his works can be seen in churches throughout southern Germany & Bavaria. During the First World War, his church-related commissions disappeared and were never fully restored. As a result, he changed his approach, devoting himself to paintings of an allegorical or historical nature, eventually modernizing his style.