Zwiller Augustin (1850-1939) "seated Red Beauty" Alsace Henner Mulhouse Paris Didenheim Woman

ZWILLER Marie-Augustin (1850-1939)

"Seated red beauty"

Oil on canvas,
Signed lower right,

Beautiful work by the Alsatian painter Marie-Augustin Zwiller which represents a red-haired woman seated on a wooden chair.
Like the artist Jean-Jacques Henner, Zwiller represents women in all their beauty. He is a specialist in nude and female portraits.

Orphan, Marie-Augustin Zwiller finds a job in a fabric printing factory for which he will be responsible for making the preparatory drawings. This first job allowed him to be admitted to the Mulhouse drawing school where he won several prizes between 1867 and 1869.
Subsequently, he became a drawing teacher in Mulhouse.
He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1882 and obtained numerous distinctions.
In 1883, he moved to Paris and set up his workshop in Neuilly.
In 1912, Zwiller was appointed a member of the Paris Salon, which included the most famous painters of the time.

A slight mark of the chassis, without impact, should be noted.

His works are kept in private collections and in various French museums, notably at the Museum of Fine Arts in Mulhouse and at the Sundgauvien Museum in Altkirch.

Size: 55 x 65 cm without frame and 73 x 81 cm with its old original frame formerly re-gilded (some accidents are to be reported to the frame including the tip of the corner at the top right)

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