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Oil on canvas. Signed lower left: Willi Nowak. This bouquet featuring attractive, harmoniously balanced colors is an excellent example of Nowak's painterly talent and expression. It is distinctive for its typical agile brushwork, mastery of the color patch and impasto structure. A German Bohemian, Nowak studied under Franz Thiele at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and became a professor at the academy in 1929. As a member of the Osma art group, he exhibited at both of their exhibitions in 1907–1908. Nowak was an Expressionist who helped to mediate contacts between Czech and German Expressionists. He is characterized by his sensual, relaxed painting style; in the 1920s, under the influence of French Neoclassicism, he toned down the color and light in his paintings. From the 1940s he again advocated color and the color patch connected with light.