Oil/canvas. Unsigned. Early 20th century

87 x 70 cm. Framed : 97 x 80 cm (partly silver frame); 3.2 kg.

Naked young woman on a light-colored wall with her back to the viewer. Two small restored areas with adhesive backing, one small defect.

If Leo Putz, then: painter in Munich and Rio de Janeiro (1869 Meran - 1940 ibid.), studied in Munich under Poetzelberger, then under Hackl at the academy ibid. and in Paris at the Académie Julian. Founding member of the Scholle, member of the Berlin, Vienna and Munich Secessions. His art was classified as "degenerate" during the Third Reich and he fled to South Tyrol.

Literature : Thieme/Becker.