Oil on canvas
With estate stamp on verso. 65 x 45,5 cm (25,5 x 17,9 in). [SM]

LITERATURE: Galerie Bayer (publisher), Hans Michaelson 1872-1954. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Bietigheim-Bissingen 2008, p. 62 (with illu. in colors, there titled "Papageientulpen").

Hans Michaelson was born in Hettstedt in Saxony Anhalt in 1872. At first he studied art with the Munich painter Ludwig Schmidt-Reutte, completing his studies at the Berlin Art Academy in 1909. In the following years he showed works in numerous exhibitions, for instance at the "Juryfreien Kunstschau Berlin" (jury-free art show). In 1927 Hans Michaelson was among the founding members of the artist group called "Die Sieben" (The Seven), named after the number of its founding members, who were, besides him, Else Wiegandt, Willi Maillard, Paterpaul Pilarski, Fritz Steinert, Oscar Oehme and Paul Speer. Their first show took place in the Berlin art salon of Alfred Heller the year the group was founded. Michaelson was represented with seven works. Sadly, Hans Michaelson met the same fate as did so many of his contemporaries, his art was defamed as "degenerate" by the National Socialists. Additionally, being the son of Jewish merchants, his life was also in great pereil, however, in 1939 he managed to escape from Germany, together with his wife, the painter Else Henriette Michaelson her went to Ecuador, where he accepted a teaching post at the Municipal Art School in Guayaquil in the early 1940s. He died in 1954. In his main period of artistic creation, which began around 1910 and lasted up until World War I, Hans Michaelson was an Expressionist. During this time the "Blumenvase" was made, a work that delivers great proof of his talents as a colorist and shows why he deserves to regain public attention. [KP].