Frank Simon Herrmann, note frame. Photo of Frank Herrmann An American who was best known in Germany where he spent most of his career, Frank Herrmann created work that embraced Beaux-Arts Academic Realism to Impressionism to the New Objectivity. He was a founding member of two important groups of the German avant-garde centered in Munich: the Munich Secessionist Group , SEMA, that included his friend, Paul Klee, and the New Secession of German Artists, led by Wassilj Kandinsky. Herrmann was also closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz, with whom he had gone to school including college, and who became a leading avant-garde art influence in New York City. They traveled together in Paris during the 1890s in Europe. In Germany, Herrmann early painted in the style of Lyric Abstraction, using primarily gouache. In 1895, Herrmann settled in Munich and. Title: Still Life. Medium: Oil on Paper. Size: 12 x 15.75 in. Signature: Estate stamp. Artist: Frank Simon Herrmann (1866 - 1942). Framed.