Werner VON PIGAGE (1888-1959), 'Aktstudie für... Lot 440694

Werner VON PIGAGE (1888-1959), 'Aktstudie für Comedia divina' / 'A nude study for Comedia divina', Mannheim, 1927 Technique: mixed media on cardboard, behind glass, framed, Signature: signed lower right 'Werner v. Pigage 1927 Mannheim', also inscribed: 'Modell: Margot Kern, Inferno V. Gesang, Studie für Dante, Comedia divina', Dimensions: 62.5 x 46.5 cm, frame 66.5 x 50.5 cm, Condition: slightly wavy, above with water damage, Literature: 'Werner v. Pigage - Ein Malerleben in Deutschland 1888-1954', catalog Hubert Vogler Collection - Claus Reisinger, Worms 2014, p. 111, SVR- 080, Comment: Pigage was a German painter. After training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Breslau under Arnold Busch, among others, he worked as a decorative painter and draughtsman from 1910. After a war injury, he settled in Mannheim around 1917 and successfully painted scenes of the Schwetzingen palace gardens and the Mannheim grounds. The nude shown here was probably painted after one of his trips to Italy.