Flower still life Biedermeier
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.
Josef Lauer was an Austrian painter who worked during the Biedermeier period.
Josef Lauer studied painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Sebastian Wegmayr, Josef Messmer, Thomas Ender and Franz Steinfeld. Throughout his career he devoted himself exclusively to painting flowers and fruit, becoming the first to incorporate floral still lifes into the landscape; often a forest background.
Sebastian Wegmayr was an Austrian painter of the Biedermeier period.
He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, then taught floral painting there. Wegmayr specialized in still lifes, both lush floral, fruit and game.