After completing military service, Walter Schulz settled in Munich in the early 1920s, where he made the acquaintance of Georg Schrimpf and joined the exhibition group of the "7 Munich painters", that Otto Nückel also belonged. For better identification by name, he called himself "Schulz-Matan" after a stretch of land in Switzerland since 1923. Again and again the artist was drawn to Paris. During his nightly forays through the deserted streets and narrow alleys of the metropolis on the Seine and its suburbs, numerous cityscapes were created, especially in the late 1920s. The "Paris suburban house" also belongs to this series of expressive "house portraits", the "protagonists" of which develop a surprising life of their own in the absen...