Alexander Gerbig (1878 Suhl - 1948 ibid.) "Sowing". Original title Expressionist work by Gerbig, created in 1919, in which he depicted everyday scenes and life in the countryside in a series of paintings. Gerbig met Max Pechstein in Dresden in 1899, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. From 1900 to 1911, he studied at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts and Academy of Art under Richard Müller, Oskar Zwintscher and Gotthardt Kuehl. In 1912 he received the Villa Romana Prize and was a scholarship holder in Florence in 1912/13. There, together with Max Pechstein, who accompanied him, he also discovered the fishing village of Monterosso al Mare. In 1913, Gerbig settled in Suhl. Between 1919 and 1921, he took part in the exhibitions organised by the Dresden Artists' Association alongside Heckel, Kirchner, Kokoschka, Meidner, Nolde and Pechstein. In 1919, he showed the present painting there; in the same year, an article about Gerbig appeared in the art magazine "Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration" (German Art and Decoration), which made him even better known. After successful exhibitions in the Weimar Republic, Gerbig was one of the ostracised artists in the Third Reich, and in 1937/38 his works were confiscated from public collections and destroyed. Oil on canvas; signed a.; 77.5 cm x 66 cm. Frame. Cat. Künstlervereinigung Dresden, Sommerausstellung, no. 155 with illus.; "Die Kunst für alle", issue 3/4, November 1919 illus. p. 47. Oil on canvas. Signed.