In the course of his life, Ernst Hassebrauk, who was educated in Dresden and Leipzig, worked both impressively and expressively - close to the Impressionism of the French, but also to that of Lovis Corinth, especially in the inner emigration of the 1930s. He develops the new expressionism especially after the liberation from the art dictatorship after 1945.
The intense colorfulness and painterly coolness of the "Kitchen Still Life" show affinities to Carl Schuch. However, Hassebrauk's representational inheres a conception of freedom, not least in the ductus of the "painterly" order, which gives itself in the matter of color pastose. Contrary to the external circumstances, Hassebrauk's still lifes possess intimacy and cheerfulness. They radiate painting with relish as an expression of a festively heightened pleasure for the eyes. A further contribution is made by the arrangements, which are often "objects of another art, the high art of eating and drinking, of fine taste and enjoyment," as Werner Schmidt puts it.