Oil Painting by Ernst Frommhold – “Feldbergblick” – Famous Third Reich Artist – Reichsführung SS – Deutsche Kunst 1944

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Here we have a rather odd item for a change!

Feldbergblick by Ernst Frommhold

Ernst Frommhold (* November 17, 1879 in Leipzig; † June 24, 1955 in Leipzig) was a well-known German landscape and marine painter.

Ernst Frommhold came from a farming family living in the Leipzig area. After completing school, he was not allowed to study painting at the Leipzig Art Academy, as he had chosen to do, but instead had to complete an apprenticeship as a merchant and eventually became self-employed in this field. He continued the artistic pursuits he had devoted himself to since childhood in his free time. Numerous study trips took him to Italy, Switzerland, and twice on a steamship across the North Sea to the coast of Iceland.

After the inflation following the First World War, he gave up his business and made his living exclusively from painting. In order to gain the necessary professional recognition, he planned to study at the Academy in Leipzig after all. There, however, he is said to have received a warning from Professor Hey that he could no longer teach him anything new and that Frommhold should simply continue as before.

Frommhold was represented with six paintings at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich in 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940. Of these, “In the Heart of Greater Germany” was purchased by Emil Georg von Stauß, General Director of the Deutsche Bank, in 1939, and “Fertile Land” was purchased by the Reich SS leadership in 1940.

In 1951, the artist moved to Karlsruhe, where he drew particular inspiration from the neighboring Black Forest in his final years. Having just recovered from a heart condition, he died unexpectedly in 1955.

More information about his paintings during the TR.

https://www.gdk-research.de/db/apsisa.dll/ete

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