The Sin

inventory number: w0118
1948
Oil paints
68 x 98 cm

Scene in the studio in the fifties of the last century. The masquerade is over, the bottles empty, the “sin” is smoking one more cigarette. Does the painter see himself as a mask? The war is past. The era of the “economic miracle” brings back joy of life after the currency reform and the desperate post-war years. According to the moral of that time a carnival of this kind is not necessarily approved of. Friedrich Neubauer captions this picture “The Sin”.