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Robert Hermann Sterl - Robert Hermann Sterl ”Summer Landscape with Cornfield”. Circa 1901–1902.. Robert Hermann Sterl 1867 Großdobritz – 1932 Naundorf/Saxon Switzerland Oil on painting cardboard. Subsequently signed and dated lower right ”zum 8. Sept 1927 – Rob Sterl”. In a colorfully and gold-colored framed, profiled frame. The painting is registered in the supplement to WVZ Popova under no. 430a. We thank Ms. Kristina Popova, Dresden, for her kind notes. Support with minimal material loss upper right. Tiny paint layer losses in the rebate area. Varnish slightly yellowed, with isolated, inconspicuous fiber inclusions and a small flaking on the right edge in the middle. Small notch with paint layer crack in the cornfield right center. Frame slightly rubbed and with slightly opened miter joints. Dimensions: 22.5 x 28.5 cm, frame 28.4 x 34 cm. Robert Hermann Sterl 1867 Großdobritz – 1932 Naundorf/Saxon Switzerland 1881–91 studied at the Dresden Art Academy, including under Leon Pohle, from 1886 master student of Ferdinand Pauwels. 1892 worked with Carl Bantzer in Willingshausen, Goppeln, and Johnsdorf. 1893 study trip to France. 1894–1904 repeated stays in Wittgenborn, Hesse. 1904 appointed teacher at the Dresden Art Academy, 1906 appointed professor. 1906–1914 a total of five trips to Russia, three of them Volga river trips on a steamboat as part of a concert tour by conductor Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitzky. 1915 elected successor to Gotthardt Kuehl as head of the master studio for painting. 1919 elected member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. 1928 first overview exhibition of Sterl's work in the Kunsthütte zu Chemnitz. 1932 memorial exhibition in the Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister Dresden.