Still Life with Pot and Apple

This is a work of the Alsatian artist Martin Hubrecht (Sélestat, from 1892 to 1965, Strasbourg).
Hubrecht Martin was a painter and watercolorist. At first he did not intend to paint, as studied literature, law and art history at the Universities of Strasbourg and Munich, and that from 1910 to 1914.
He then entered the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, where he was a student from 1914 to 1915, then to Munich in 1916. This final year preceding its incorporation into the German Army (1916-1918), who took him to Koenigsberg, at Tilsit and Macedonia. After the war he went to the Grande Chaumiere in Paris (1919-1920), to study with Bernard Naudia drawing and painting at Sérusier. He returned to Strasbourg in Strasbourg at the end of 1920 and remained there until the Second World War. In 1940 he went to Reims, where in 1941 he became director of Applied Arts, a position he kept until his retirement in 1962. Then he returned to Strasbourg, but only for a while, since he died September 21, 1965. He was a member of the Group in May, a group of artists Strasbourg, 1922. ("Painters of old Alsace and previously (1880-1982) Francois Lotz, Editions Printek page 161-162).

Our painting dates from 1921, fits perfectly into the movement of the "New Objectivity" (Neue Sachlichkeit).

Martin Hubrecht Various works are preserved in the Museum of Modern Art in Strasbourg (MAMCS)

Cf Martin Hubrecht exhibition at the Museum of History Haguenau July 7 to October 14, 2007 ..