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    Artist

  • Oppler, Ernst, 1867-1929, artist

    • Title

  • Slovaks

  • Physical Description

    1 print : lithograph ; 16.1" x 13.4" (41 cm x 34 cm)

  • Date

    circa 1919

  • Notes

    Signed lower right, dated lower left.

  • Summary

    A group of men in heavy coats and caps is seen through the open doorway. They are POWs; the print was included in a collection KRIEG und KUNST, published in Berlin.

  • Subject

    Slovaks; Prisoners of war; Hats; Coats; Men; Nineteen twenties

  • Medium

    Lithographs; Prints

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Biographical/Historical Information

Ernst Oppler was a painter and printmaker born 19 September 1867 in Hannover. His father was the architect Edwin Oppler. With his brother Alexander he trained at the Munich Academy and later established studios in Berlin where they became members of the well-known Berlin Secession, with other noted German artists of the day. Oppler was an impressionist painter of portraits, interiors, landscapes and movement in the early 20th century, particularly notable for his prints of dancers. He died 1 March 1929 in Berlin.

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Oppler, Ernst: Slovaks, Leo Baeck Institute, 78.554.