Still life oil painting of red tuilips by Fechenbach

This vibrant still life of flowers is painted in the expressionist style with dark, sombre tones, granting the painting a sense of melancholy characteristic of Fechenbach’s style.The composition depicts a still life of red tulips in a vase set against a blue backdrop and placed atop a red circular table.

Hermann Israel Fechenbach was a German-born British Jewish artist, who began working in the German modern realist style of ‘Die Neue Sachlichkeit’. When the present work was painted in 1954, Fechenbach was living in Colet Gardens in London, and was beginning to receive more commissions and exhibitions after being displaced and interned during the Second World War.

The painting is signed and dated to the lower right corner 'Hermann Fechenbach, 1954', and is held in a painted white wooden frame.