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Dell, Adolf
1890 Karlsruhe - 1977 Düsseldorf.
«Landschaft bei Badenweiler (landscape near Badenweiler)». Vineyards, houses and snow-covered meadows in gentle winter calm.
Oil on plywood. Signed lower left. Verso signed again, dated «März 1943 (March 1943)» and titled.
H 49,5, W 58 cm (support). Framed.
The jack-of-all-trades Adolf Dell, endowed with an astonishing variety of talents, achieved top performances in all the careers he embarked on. First, he worked as a goalkeeper for the Karlsruher Fußball-Verein e.V., with whom he became German champion in 1910. He then studied at the Akademie Karlsruhe under Wilhelm Trübner (1851 - 1917) and joined the artists' association «Das Junge Rheinland» in 1917. In addition, he not only appeared as an actor in productions by Gustaf Gründgens (1899 - 1963) at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, but also increasingly excelled in productions for cinema and television from the 1930s onwards. His most lasting contribution to his fame was the role of Franz Buchner in the Black Forest series «Der Forellenhof». Even though he was known to the general public primarily as an actor, he never completely lost sight of painting throughout his life, as evidenced by the present atmospheric landscape.

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