Modernist portrait Piercing gaze of elderly Jew German master 1920 Oil painting ^Sale

A very expressive portrait of an elderly Jew with a piercing gaze. The image of a man clearly reflects the character of a strong, strong-willed man and the age-old Jewish sadness in his eyes... Great job, stunning color. This portrait was part of annual exhibition of the Munich Secession in the Glaspalast in 1922.
Size app.: 65 x 55.2 cm (roughly 20.6 x 21.7 in), 80.7 x 71 cm (roughly 32 x 28 in) black forest baroque style frame. Very Good condition, wear and tear. Painting in oils on canvas lined on Alfred Kruger (Leipzig) stretcher. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 5 kg is going to measure some 7 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
Paul Hermann Schoedder (1887 – 1971) was a German painter. He was the son of a garden architect. He attended the Märkisches Realgymnasium in Iserlohn and then studied art history and philosophy in Leipzig from 1908. He met Max Klinger and decided to become a painter. To this end, he took his first painting and etching courses with Fritz Rentsch and Alois Kolb and, from 1910, private lessons in Munich with Charles Jaeckle and Hermann Groeber. On October 11, 1911, he enrolled to study drawing at the Munich Art Academy. There he attended the drawing class of Carl Johann Becker-Gundahland took painting lessons from Hermann Urban and Max Doerner. After the end of WW I he returned to Munich and finished his studies with several awards and as a master student. He initially worked as a freelance painter. From 1926 he undertook various study trips, including to Paris, southern France and Corsica. In 1927 Paul Hermann Schoedder became a teacher for figure drawing and painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule Dortmund. In 1930, the city of Dortmund commissioned him to paint a history picture as a mural. In 1930 he moved with his wife Elsbeth Schoedder, née von der Trappen, to Hüttebruchen near Allendorf and built a house there in 1937 for himself and his family of eight. Schoedder took part in numerous exhibitions, such as: the annual exhibition of the Munich Secession in the Glaspalast in 1922, In 1935, Schoedder directed the Great Westphalian Art Exhibition in Dortmund's Haus der Kunst, In 1937, the Museum for Art and Cultural History in Dortmund honored him with a special exhibition on the occasion of his 50th birthday, In 1941, Schoedder took part in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich with the oil painting "Our girls make music". After the WW II he returned to Dortmund and worked from 1949 until his retirement in 1952 as a teacher for painting, anatomy, art history and drawing at the Dortmund School of Art. In retirement he devoted himself entirely to painting and drawing. His artistic legacy is in the Westphalian Slate Mining and Local History Museum in Schmallenberg-Holthausen.