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

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