An original pastel painting by the German Modernist painter Max Ackermann,(1887 - 1975) He was both painter and graphic artist of abstract works.Signed and dated 1935Born in 1887 in Berlin, Ackermann began carving wood figures and modeling ornaments in his father’s studio at a young age. By age 19 he was pupil of the Belgian painter Henri van de Velde in Weimar. In 1908 he studied at the Art Academy in Dresden, and in 1909 and 1910 he was a student of Franz von Stuck in the Art Academy of Munich. His first one-man show was held in Stuttgart in 1924, and in 1928 he shared a collective show with Kandinskty and George Grosz.Ackerman began painting abstractly long before the First World War. In 1933 he was forbidden, by Nazi decree, to exhibit, and in 1936, again by decree, he was forbidden to teach, but he continued his abstract painting. After the second World War, a one-man show in 1946 in Stuttgart was soon followed by other solo shows in the larger cities of the Wester...