Paul Ludwig Troost, Stilleben

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‘Stilleben’ (‘Still Life’)
Biography: Paul Ludwig Troost

Created October 1931.
Depicted in ‘Die Kunst im Dritten Reich’, 1937.
Described in ‘Hitlers Architekten’ by Timo Nüsslein, 2012, page 240.

‘At the Berghof, among the 534 art works located there in 1945, only a couple could be classified as contemporary pieces. These had a special sentimental value, a portrait of Paul Ludwig Troost for example’, Jonathan Petropoulos, ‘Art as politics in the Third Reich’.

Paul Ludwig Troost, Still Life, depicted in ‘Die Kunst im Dritten Reich’, 1937, page 61.

Paul Ludwig Troost, ‘Der Erster Baumeister des Führers’ (‘First Architect of the Führer’)
Paul Ludwig Troost and Albert Speer are regarded as the two most influential architects of the Third Reich. Troost, however, was also a painter. He started painting in the 1920s, but most of his serious works -approximately 30 to 40 paintings- were created from 1930 to 1934, the year of his death. Paul Ludwig Troost painted women’s portraits (‘Frieda Thiersch’, ‘Gerdy Troost’, ‘Maiden with Fruits’ etc.) and still lifes. The portraits were mostly half-length depictions with single-coloured backgrounds. His still lifes were realistic, three dimensional depictions of fruit, jars, carafes, and books sitting on a wooden table. His still lifes, characterised by regularity and order, were inspired by the works of Cezanne from 1880 to 1895. Most of the paintings of Troost have been lost.

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