Theo Champion

Theo Champion studied briefly in Düsseldorf and then in Weimar, from where he made trips to various countries. He was wounded in World War I. He first was an Impressionist, in 1919 he co-founded the artists association “The Young Rhineland” and later joined the “Rheinische Secession”. His painting style then changed several times (Neo-Impressionism, Van Gogh as a model and ideal, New Objectivity, New Romanticism). 1932-33 and from 1947, he taught at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf.

Probably his entry Tennisplatz (Tennis Court) is a painting from 1927 in oil on canvas (60,5 x 51cm). A work showing a similar motif in landscape format was created a few years earlier.