Paul Walter Ehrhardt (1872 - 1959)

Paul Walter Ehrhardt

Paul Walter Ehrhardt was a German painter of the Munich School. Paul W. Ehrhardt studied with Max Thedy at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar and with Paul Hoecker at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 1906 he exhibited regularly in the Munich Glass Palace and at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. Ehrhardt painted atmospheric Biedermeier interiors in muted tones. During the Nazi regime he was one of the most sought-after artists. Except for 1938, from 1937 to 1944 he was represented with 19 paintings at seven Great German Art Exhibitions in Munich, of which Hitler acquired three and the Nazi leader Joachim von Ribbentrop one. His works were represented at auctions until 2006.