Paul Plontke (germany. 1884 1966) Titled “mother And Child"

An interesting and endearing painting by Paul Plontke (Germany. 1884-1966) titled “Mother and Child' depicting a other seated in a landscape with a baby on her knee. Oil on Canvas. Signed. H.77 W.67 cm.

Signed lower right

Housed in period frame

Paul Plontke was teaching at the art college on Hardenbergstrasse. One of his pupils was Felix Nussbaum (1904–44). Around this time Plontke took part regularly in exhibitions by the Association of Berlin Artists and the Academy of Arts.
In May 1929 he exhibited a self-portrait at the Academy’s spring show. The painting is marked for sale in the catalogue. This could be our work.
At the end of the Second World War, Plontke’s œuvre seems to have been destroyed by fire. His “Self-Portrait” was presumably somewhere else at the time. We need to find out where. A few years later, either directly or via a roundabout route, it arrived at the newly opened art dealership of Bruno Dunst jun. at Schlüterstrasse 65. Here it was purchased in 1975 as one of the first works for the Berlinische Galerie.

Condition : Used
Materials : Oil on Canvas