Martin Frost, Ernteszene

Martin Frost, Ernteszene
Martin Frost, Harvest Scene circa 1910, signed lower right "Frost", brisk, studiously captured landscape with peasant women harvesting reeds on Sylt? oil on cardboard, framed in black lacquer, IM 24 x 33 cm.Artist info: Martin Frost (1875 Breslau to 1928 in Kampen/Sylt) was a German military and battle painter, circa 1910, signed lower right "Frost", brisk, studiously captured landscape with peasant women harvesting reeds on Sylt? oil on cardboard, framed in black lacquer, IM 24 x 33 cm. Artist info: Martin Frost (1875 Breslau to 1928 in Kampen/Sylt) was a German military and battle painter, he studied at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Breslau and at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin with Maximilian Schäfer and Max Koner, in the period 1899-1900 he served as a one-year volunteer, he mainly painted landscapes and scenes from the everyday life of farmers and fishermen in Northern Germany, but also expressionist nude studies, with the outbreak of the 1st World War, he was sent to Germany as a war painter. With the outbreak of World War I he was sent to the Eastern Front as a war painter, from October 1915 he served on the Alsace Front, from January 1916 he was employed as an "approved war painter" by the staff of the 9th Reserve Division. Reserve Division, his works depict the everyday life of German soldiers in combat and war in a style that strives to be true to reality, Frost is considered an outstanding artist of this genre, in 1917 he was awarded the Iron Cross II Class, many of his pictures are in the collections of the Wehrgeschichtliches Museum Rastatt. Source: Hans Vollmer (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler.