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The artist sketched with secure academic style, bathing women near a lake shore of the southern German region (landscape by Munich). A beautiful drawing, which is in its illustrative lecture close at the bathing scenes of Heinrich Zille.
Mayershofer first joined at 1890 the Munich arts and crafts school. 1908 he studied again at the Munich Academy as a pupil of Otto Seitz and Karl von Marr and visited also in Munich the private art school of Anton Azbe. He reached popularity especially through his graphic works (drawings), which been illustrated in magazines like; Jugend, Simplicissimus und Hyperion. Since 1919, he was teaching drawing at the Munich Academy and there since 1925 as a professor. Because of his great drawing talent, he was called the „Munich Menzel“.
Literature: Thieme-Becker, vol XXIV, p. 298; Lexikon der Münchner Maler im 19./20. Jahrhundert, vol 6, pp. 68-69; Dr. H. Ludwig, Max and Mayrshofer and Franz Marx, Weltkunst, no.13 / 1990, pp. 2044-47.
His works can be found in many museums and galleries including: Sprengel Museum Hannover, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich, Stadtmuseum Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Graphische Sammlung Munich, Barmen, Bremen, Breslau, Eberfeld, Frankfurt (Municipal Gallery), Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Stockholm, Vienna (Albertina), Zurich
Notes: ... "light and colors are intertwined and can work up to what the approach of classical Impressionists like Corinth or Liebermann once summarized" ... (Dr. H. Ludwig, Lexikon der Münchner Maler im 19./20. Jahrhundert, vol 6, pp 68-69).
Fine original condition and with decorative frame. Further details and price on request.
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