Oil on Canvas Portrait Painting by Erwin Vollmer (Ca 1884-1973)

Original large signed oil on canvas portrait painting by Erwin Vollmer with a second portrait oil painting on the reverse of the frame. Dated on the frame for 1943 along with the title of one of the paintings (not sure which one) "Werbung" which means propaganda. It seems that the frame for this oil on canvas was used several times over the years as the dates of 1928 and 1940 also appear on it in various places. The location name seems to be Rehlingen, a district of Luneburg which is a Hanseatic town in Lower Saxony, Germany where Vollmer settled in 1908 and lived most of his adult life in seclusion. The oil painting on the front is signed in the bottom right hand corner in red E Vollmer. It shows a peasant man with his arms around a woman in similar clothing in a tender embrace. This is typical of Vollmers style of painting even though his eyesight was at this time increasingly failing him. On the reverse side there is a pastoral scene of a woman in a slight repose, again a female p