Stilleben mit Blumen

Born in Rumania, Segal settled in Berlin in 1904 and began to exhibit his paintings with the Berlin Secessionists. In 1910 he helped establish the Neue Secession. The year in which this work was painted, was when the group exhibited for the first time together in the Salon der Refusierten. Amongst the painters who participated in this show were Nolde, Pechstein, Kirchner, Heckel and Schmidt-Rotluff. The range of Segal's palette, the subject and the way in which he applies his paint to the canvas are clearly indebted to the strong influence played by the Brücke aesthetic and pictorial credo.