Justitz Alfréd 1879–1934

Toilet, 1928

signed in pencil bottom right A. Justitz 28, ink, paper, 29,5 × 18,5 cm, mount, frame, glass
Certificate of authenticity of Franz Kafka Gallery attached. The drawing study Toilets from 1928 is an example of his valued late work Alfred Justitz, in which the artist uses simple means of line drawing with the use of line drawing to achieve an impressive and poetic expression. The theme of the female nude, often depicted in the motif of the toilet or bathing, belonged alongside still lifes and landscapes were among the favourite themes of interwar European modernist art. Variations of simple and intimate scenes provided a wide fiebottom left for exploration expressive, compositional and formal possibilities of post-impressionist construction, Fauvist, Cubist and Expressionist paintings. Alfréd Justitz (1879-1934), painter, printmaker and illustrator, trained as a at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under the tutelage of Professor Maximilian Pirner and František Thiele and continued his training in Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany. With the creation of French Modernism, which greatly influenced him, he became personally acquainted with after 1910, when he was in Paris.