During
these early
years, Lothar Sperl also
created oil paintings, working in his mother’s flat in very
constricted
circumstances. These paintings repeat the topics of the woodcuts or
depict
landscapes, particularly forest scenes.
During
the tense months
of the and autumn of
1938, most of the civilian German population was evacuated to Northern Germany,
while Lothar Sperl joined the
Freikorps.
The
annexation of the
Sudetenland into the
German Reich made it possible for Lothar Sperl to apply to the Art
Academy
in Berlin
in
the following year, where he was accepted into the class of the
prominent Professor
Eichhorst in April 1939. He worked with great enjoyment and energy and
very
successfully. The summer of 1939 was the high point
of this period for himself
and his fiancé Maria
(Mizzl). With Professor Eichhorst and some others of his pupils they
spent the
summer in Matrei, in the Eastern Tyrol
– a
decisive experience for the young people. Some watercolours date from
that
summer:
Farmhouse,
1939, Watercolour, 60x70
Gallus
Wibner 1939, Watercolour, 55x65
Genoveva,
1939, Watercolour