04 works, The Art Of The Nude, Fritz Erler's Calma, with footnotes #207

Fritz Erler

Detail; Calma, c. 1909

Oil on canvas

163 by 251.5cm., 64¼ by 99in.

Private collection

Fritz Erler

The Spanish woman

Oil on panel

82 by 90cm., 32¼ by 35½in.

Private collection

Sold for 50,000 GBP in November 2013

Fritz Erler, 1868 Frankenstein - 1940 Munich

LADY WITH FAN

Oil on wood.

160 x 163 cm.

Private collection

Estimated for € 25.000 - 45.000 in  September 2023

Fritz Erler

Calma, c. 1909

Oil on canvas

163 by 251.5cm., 64¼ by 99in.

Private collection

Sold for 31,250 GBP in December 2016

Fritz Erler (15 December 1868 – 11 December 1940) was a German painter, graphic designer and scenic designer. Although most talented as an interior designer, he is perhaps best remembered for several propaganda posters he produced during World War I.

He was born in Frankenstein. Beginning in 1886 he studied under Albrecht Bräuer at the school of art in Breslau. He also attended the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1895 he moved to Munich and lived from 1918 in Holzhausen am Ammersee. His first designs date from 1893. In 1896 he was a founding member of the magazine Jugend. He also painted several portraits around the start of the 20th century.

Erler was one of the official military painters for the Oberste Heeresleitung. His paintings were commissioned as war propaganda.

 Fritz Erler

Help us win - subscribe to the war bond

Colored lithography

Printed by Fritz Maison Munich. 

The promotional poster for the sixth war bond was adorned with his painting Helft uns siegen! (1917), perhaps Erler's best-known work. A soldier, his face darkened from the muck of the trenches, gazes beyond the viewer into No Man's Land with eyes that shine as if from an inward light. This heroic image depicts the widespread contemporary belief that trench warfare would somehow be a morally cleansing experience.

Erler died in Munich in 1940. More on  Fritz Erler

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