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The German painter and graphic artist Max Peiffer Watenphul (Weferlingen 1896-1976 Rome) followed his artistic calling only after initially studying medicine in Bonn and law in Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Munich. Through exposure to the work of Paul Klee, the decision matured to study art at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he met Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Kurt Schwitters, Josef Albers and others. After several years of teaching artistic design at the Folkwang School in Essen, Peiffer Watenphul was awarded the prestigious Rome Prize and moved to Rome for nine months. It was to remain only one of many international stations in his life. His travels and longer stays abroad took the artist to Italy, Dalmatia, Mexico, France, Spain, Greece, Morocco and Lebanon, among other places, all of which also served as sources of inspiration for his artistic work. Peiffer Watenphul always remained closely connected to the cities of Rome, Venice and Salzburg. The artist left behind an extensive œuvre of paintings, drawings, lithographs and watercolors, his themes revolving around still life as well as urban and natural landscapes. Throughout his life he remained faithful to a representational art, which is characterized by strong reduction and stylization and subtle colors.
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