Kakteenstilleben mit Semaphoren II

細節

Georg Scholz (1890-1945)
Kakteenstilleben mit Semaphoren II
signed and dated 'G.Scholz '28' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 18½ in. (65.2 x 47.3 cm.)
Painted in 1928

來源

Anonymous sale, Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 24 November 1995, lot 70.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

出版

F.H. Sternfeld, Georg Scholz (1890-1945), Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Cologne, 2003, no. 64 (illustrated p. 484).

注意事項

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拍品專文

Georg Scholz, who exhibited nine works in the famous Neue Sachlichkeit exhibition in Mannheim in 1925, is today best known for his still life paintings of the 1920s. 'In 1923-25 he painted three still-lifes of cacti in which he took up the topos of the window-picture, which had been current from the Romantics down to Hans Thoma. He interpreted Still Life with View from Window as an emblem of time frozen, caught in the polarity of inside and outside, light and dark, near and far, silhouette and solid, nature and technology. The result is total stasis: artificiality prevails, in both manmade objects (railway signals, electric lamps) and "natural" elements (cacti, trees)' (R. März, exh. cat. The Romantic Spirit in German Art 1790-1990, The Hayward Gallery, London, 1994, no. 190, p. 480).

The present painting is very similar to a slightly larger version with the same title housed in the Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Munster (illustrated in colour in the above-mentioned exhibition catalogue, no. 190, p. 365).