/internal/media/dispatcher/7538/fullThe Old Bookcase1929[Friedrich Frotzel]Friedrich FrotzelOil on canvas A woman with a fashionably short haircut sits on a wooden box in front of a well-stocked bookcase, facing away from the viewer. She is buried in a book, and on the floor is a white cloth she may have used earlier to remove dust. Friedrich Frotzel, a native of Vienna, captures this private moment of reading in a precise, almost photorealistic manner. He studied mechanical and electrical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna before becoming a self-taught painter in 1924. Frotzel, who joined the National Socialist Party in 1933, classified his art in 1938 as “traditional” and produced works in keeping with the party’s beliefs. Arts and craftshttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/7093/rdf