Erwin Knirr oil painting 1935 without frame
oil/canvas, r. or sign. and dated Erwin Knirr 1935.
Portrait of a man
Erwin Knirr (*1894 – Munich + 1973 – Schaftlach)
– German figure and landscape painter, portraits, interiors and still lifes.
studied with his father Heinrich Knirr,
A. Jank and Carl von Marr (1858-1936) in Munich
1912/14 at the Munich Art Academy
and studies with A. Waldschmidt at the Art Academy in Stuttgart.
Member of the Munich Artists‘ Association,
Exhibition of the works from 1924 in the Munich Glass Palace,
the Venice Biennale, the Vienna Secession
and the Heinemann Gallery, Munich
– Lit.: Vollmer