Bidspirit auction | Georg Broel (1884, Bad Honnef

Georg Broel (1884, Bad Honnef - 1940, Munich) - Drawing with a view of the Siebengebirge, 1931 - Georg Broel (1884, Bad Honnef - 1940, Munich) - Drawing with a view of the Siebengebirge, 1931 Hand drawing in pencil on paper, signed and dated ”G. BROEL 1931” at the bottom right. Landscape view of the Siebengebirge mountains and the Rhine, with two trees casting shadows in the foreground. Framed under glass, 55 x 45 cm. Broel studied at the Munich School of Applied Arts under Maximilian Dasio and later took lessons from Hermann Groeber. During the First World War, Broel was an officer in the List Regiment in Flanders, where he also produced works for Simplicissimus. During the Nazi era, Broel was a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. During this period, he is known to have participated in a total of 18 exhibitions, including in 1937, 1938 and 1939 at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. In 1937, Martin Bormann acquired the oil painting ”Hochwald” (now in the Pinakothek der Moderne). A year later, Adolf Hitler bought all three paintings presented by Broel.