Inscribed in pencil on the reverse by the artist: “Max Ackermann, Horn Bodensee, Women Bathing 1935”

On the front, on the left side, signed by the artist and additionally titled “Women by the Sea”

For Max Ackermann, a turning point began in the mid-1920s with his burgeoning interest in sports, games, and the beach. Abstract themes and their artistic interpretations became increasingly important. In 1930, he founded a “Seminar for Absolute Painting” at the Stuttgart Adult Education Center. There, he taught in the spirit and tradition of Adolf Hölzel and, through theoretical studies and practical exercises, developed the doctrine of pictorial laws.

In 1933, following the ban imposed by the National Socialists, he withdrew to the Höri Peninsula on Lake Constance in a form of “internal emigration.” This retreat also marked a new beginning. His encounter with Gertrud Ostermayer led to a turning point in his life that ushered in a new creative period. From then on, people, nature, and landscape merged into abstraction, bringing together the artist’s pursuit of realistic representation and abstract dissolution. The drawings created in Horn can therefore be regarded as central works in Max Ackermann’s oeuvre.

Fully framed in a custom frame with museum-quality glass.