Autograph quotation signed.
Bad Ditzenbach, 16. IX. 1917.
Oblong 8vo (postcard). ½ page.
€ 180,00
Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau: "Die Kunst ohne Inhalt gleicht der Schale ohne Kern [...]".
Specializing in Christian themes, Fugel was a co-founder of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst" in Munich in 1890. His oeuvre comprises murals, altarpieces and panoramas as well as a cycle of 136 paintings of biblical motifs for teaching purposes.
Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.