Monumental nude painting with forest nymph at the sourse was painted by the artist as the study to his similar painting by the same artist (see additional photos). The author of our painting, prominent German artist of Jewish origin Simon Glücklich (1863 Bielsko/Austrian Silesia - 1943 Munich).Simon Glücklich was the son of the decoration painter Leo Glücklich, attended the Vienna Academy from 1880 to 1890 and studied during the period from 1885 to 1890 under the genre and landscape painter Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892). He undertook two formative study tours which took him to 1890 to upper Italy and in 1920 to the Baltic Sea. Until 1917, Glücklich lived in Vienna (not as often claimed since 1890 in Munich). He stayed settled in Munich by the end of his life. Devoting himself initially the genre painting, he engaged in scenes as well as the landscape and still life painting later the mythological representations. His works are often a then prevailing cheerful stylized nature interpretation of Art Nouveau at the turn of the century, where man and landscape represent a happy unit, becoming an outstanding painter of corporate, nude and portrait illustrations, especially of nobility and high bourgeoisie happy evolved over the course of time.In 1890 Emperor Franz Joseph I purchased at the exhibition of the Vienna Künstlerhaus the painting Kinderquartet and 1898 the painting The bouquet. In his hometown of Bielsko, Glücklich painted Genii and muses in the great Hall of the shooting House on the front wall. 1905 the aritst received the Golden Medal of the international art exhibition in Munich. Works by Simon Glücklich reside in collections of major German museums. His works are in international demand and prices up to 40,000 euros on the art market.

Literature: Thieme-Becker-artist encyclopedia;Thomas Just and Irmgard Pangerl: Emperor Franz Joseph and the first exhibition of the secessionists of 1898, 2013;The paintings of the 19th century in the Hamburger Kunsthalle (catalog, 1993)German artist von Marées-Slevogt, Bavarian State painting collection Neue Pinakothek (catalogue, 2003)A. Häusler: biographical Memorial of Munich Jews (1933-1945).

Inscription: signed on the back of the stretcher.

Technique: oil on canvas, splendid gilded frame.

Measurements: unframed h 61 3/4" x h 31 1/8" (157 x 79 cm), framed h 69" x w 38 3/8" (175,5 x 97,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition, original canvas, professionally cleaned, no any inpaintings or paintlosses.