Ernst Bernhard Marx, 1864 Oberspaar near Meissen, was a student of F. Pauwels and worked in Dresden as a history and portrait painter, was awarded the Rompreis in 1893 and then worked in Paris and Italy, here: naked couple in passionate embrace in forest, oil / canvas, minor traces of age, signed lower right and dated 1921, approx. 150 x 138 cm