George Mosson (1851 Aix-en-Provence - 1933 Berlin) Spring still life with tulips and forsythia in a chip basket Impressionist masterpiece from his best creative phase, created in 1911, with brightly coloured flowers. The French-German painter came to Berlin in 1865 and studied at the Berlin Academy under Carl Steffeck and Hermann Freese as well as at the Weimar School of Art. Mosson exhibited in Berlin from 1884. Mosson taught at the drawing and painting school of the "Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen" (Association of Berlin Women Artists), where numerous, later well-known women painters were among his students. In 1892, together with Max Liebermann, Walter Leistikow and Franz Skarbina, he co-founded the "Vereinigung der XI" and in 1898 was a founding member of the "Berliner Secession". Mosson played a leading role within the Berlin Secession as a board member with Lovis Corinth. After the Secession split in 1913, he joined Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt and others in the "Free Secession", and in the same year Mosson was awarded the title of professor. One of the main subjects of his oeuvre were floral still lifes, including a comparable painting from 1912 with the same or the same basket of lace, which is in the Berlinische Galerie (inv. no. BG-M 12126/14). Oil on canvas; signed l. and r. and dated. 1911; old (exhibition?) label with no. 1214 verso. 82 cm x 72 cm. Original frame. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1911. Old label with no. 1214 on the reverse. Original frame.