Eduard Dollerschell (1887 Wuppertal-Elberfeld - 1946 Wülfrath) Seated peasant girl with flower and green apple Expressive-realistic work by Dollerschell, a rediscovered artist of the so-called Lost (Missing) Generation. He received his artistic training at the Munich Academy under Angelo Jank and Franz von Stuck, and from 1912 onwards in Paris. There he met Wilhelm Lehmbruck and exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne in 1912. After the I. Dollerschell moved to Wuppertal (or Elberfeld) after the First World War and became famous in 1923 thanks to a major article about him in "Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration". Dollerschell lived in Paris again for several years from 1927. After 1933, many of his works were ostracised in Germany as "degenerate" and removed from public collections. A large part of his oeuvre was destroyed in an air raid on Wuppertal in 1943. Oil on canvas; signed a. r. a. dat. (19)27 with indistinct location. Label of the art dealer Bruno Gey, Elberfeld, verso. 79 cm x 66.5 cm. Original frame. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated (19)27 with indistinct location. Original gallery label. Original frame.