Marcel von Herrfeld born in 1880 was a son
from Alice Herrfeldt and the Spanish act-painter Luis Ricardo Falero
(1851-1896) who worked at Paris. Alice Herrfelt had painting lessons at
the spanish painter. In the year of birth of her son Marcel René Alice
Herrfeldt married the hungarian opera singer Alexander Klein. In Munich
Marcel went to school and began in the epoche of Art Nouveau a education
at the Kunstgewerbeschule München. Later he is supposed to have been at
the art`s academie of Munich but his name cannot be found in the
archives there. As an austrian-hungarian officer of reserve he had to
take part in the first worldwar, was captured in Russia, was sent to
prison in Sibiria and escaped adventurous over China and India to
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The works of the famous
painter Franz von Stuck in Munich influenced the young Herrfeldt.
Successfull was his first exhibition in 1921 in the Glaspalace of
Munich. He showed there the act of the femal slave and therefore he
attracted attention. His studio was in Schwabing. His favorit subject to
paint finaly was the erotic femal act, which he didn´t paint in an
academically aesthetically way but anticipated idealizing the
pin-up-culture of painting. His women are athletic and selfconfident
figures who present themselves at seashore or like here in a classical
pose of the Rokoko in the historical surroundings of a boudoir.
Herrfeldt died 1965 in Munich. Posthum he got the Diplom d´honneur"
1971.
