Still life with Fruit and Duck by Nikolaus Johann Davis 1883 - 1967 (Greek)

Artist - Nikolaus Johann Davis 1883 - 1967 (Greek)

Title - Still life with Fruit and Duck

Medium - Oil on board signed at bottom right C1940S

Size - 42 x 56cm

This is a superb and good size oil on canvas by the well known and listed Greek artist Nicolaus Davis 1922- 1985.

The painting is in excellent condition, framed and ready to hang.

Nicolaus Davis (or Nikolaus Davis Greek: Νικόλαος Δάβης; 1 January 1883 – 4 August 1967) was a Greek genre and landscape painter.

Biography

He was born in Amorgos as the son of a merchant. His parents moved to Athens where he visited the School of Arts as a guest lecturer. In 1908 with a scholarship he went to Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. His teachers there were Carl von Marr and Ludwig von Löfftz.

Davis became member of the Muich Artist Union (Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft) and participated at the international Glaspalast exhibitions in 1918, 1919, 1922 and 1925. His studio was in Schwabing.

Nicolaus Davis died in Ebersberg (near Munich) in 1967.

His still life paintings were more commonly made into post cards compared to his other works.