Walter Schulz-Matan (1889 - 1965) — Auction price
Walter Schulz-Matan was a German painter of magic realism. After training as a decorative painter, the Thuringian Walter Schulz-Matan led a life of wanderings across Europe. After military service and captivity in World War I, he lived in Munich from 1919, maintained his first studio in Munich-Schwabing from 1920 and worked as a stage painter for the "Neue Bühne". From 1930 he was one of the co-founders of the exhibition group 7 Munich painters. Schulz-Matan was also a member of the Neue Secession and the Deutscher Künstlerbund. In the New Objectivity art movement, Schulz-Matan developed his own artistic specificity in the Magic Realism movement. During the Second World War he worked as a war painter in France, then again as an artist in Munich.
