‘Bathers’ Oil by Gustav Michael Pillig
Oil on canvas
67x51cm
Gustav Michael Pillig
1877 Gelsenkirchen – 1956 Melbourne
Studied around 1900 in Stockholm.
From 1901 to 1908 at the Royal Academy in Berlin and alternately at the Düsseldorf Academy.
Several monuments, including gravestones by his hand in Aachen, Essen, etc.
Also the Hugo Schulze monument at the entrance to the miners’ school in Bochum.
1913 moved to Australia, exhibited in Sydney and Melbourne.
Died in Melbourne in 1956.