Marcel Renee von Herrfeldt - Artist Info

About Marcel Renee von Herrfeldt

  • Biography

    Marcel von Herrfeld, born in 1889, was a son of Alice Herrfeldt and the Spanish painter of nudes Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896) who worked in Paris. Alice Herrfelt took painting lessons from the Spanish painter. In the year of the birth of her son Marcel, René Alice Herrfeldt married the Hungarian opera singer Alexander Klein.

    Marcel went to school in Munich, Germany and began his education at the Kunstgewerbeschule München during the time of the Art Nouveau movement. As an Austrian-Hungarian reserve officer he had to take part in the first world war, was captured in Russia, was sent to prison in Siberia and escaped via China and India to Munich.

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