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Lot description
THEODOR BAIERL (GERMAN 1881-1932) VENUS AT HER TOILET signed THEODOR BAIERL lower right oil on panel 38.5 x 31cm; 15 1/4 x 12 1/4in 63 x 59cm; 24 3/4 x 23 1/4in (framed) Painted circa 1920. Provenance The Leicester Galleries (Ernest Brown & Phillips), London Sale, Dreweatt's Newbury, Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, The Remaining Stock, 24th February 2009, lot 70 Purchased at the above sale by the present owner Baierl studied at the Munich Academy under Franz von Stuck (1863-1928) and Martin Feuerstein (1856-1931). A true romantic, he immersed himself in the art, love sonnets and pagentry of a distant medieval past, the purity of his palette, poetic compositions and attention to detail reflecting the influence of the Old Masters. In the present work, painted in the wake of the upheaval of the First World War, the huge trees that arch over Venus with putti and her attendants and the village and mountains in the background suggest the harmony and calm of the Italian painters of the quattrocento. However the curious incongruity of the massive fountain and Baierl's use of saturated blue-greens for the distant hills, belies his Munich secessionist training and give a distinctly modern feel to the composition. Up until the First World War, Baierl received public and private commissions for frescoes, altar paintings and Stations of the Cross for churches in numerous German towns, including Augsburg, Munich and Schweinfurt. Thereafter such commissions largely ceased and Baierl devoted his time to easel painting.