Oskar Nerlinger (1893–1969), 1949: The Shores Of The Island Of Rügen At Sunset
Artist: Oskar Nerlinger (1893–1969)
Country: Germany
Subject: Painting (mixed media) in a Japanese-inspired style, created in 1949, likely on the island of Rügen in a Bodden, set against a sunset and featuring a figure on the right. The work is deeply poetic and executed with the meticulous care typical of German precision, drawing inspiration from Japanese artists such as Hiroshige.
Medium: mixed media on paper
Signature: signed lower left (see photo)
Condition: superb, no foxing
* This work can be considered one of his major landscape creations.
It is a little gem of Baltic poetry
.
** This work has never been offered at public auction and comes from the same collection as the work by Vano Meliashvili (Georgian primitivist) Formerly part of an Israeli collection in France.
*** Dimensions of the artwork (unframed): 24 cm x 31 cm
Short biography: Since 1945, he has taught as a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin-Charlottenburg, located in the Western occupation zone (later West Berlin).
A longtime member of the Communist Party (KPD), his political views led to growing friction with Western university authorities at the dawn of the Cold War.
The year 1949 marked the end of his collaboration with Karl Hofer on the publication of the leading art journal Bildende Kunst (which they had co-edited since 1947).
A former figure in the constructivist avant-garde and proletarian art movements of the 1920s, Nerlinger began to align himself strictly with Soviet cultural policy in 1949.
As the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was officially founded in October 1949, he laid the foundations for his aesthetic allegiance to “state socialist realism” , which would ultimately drive him to flee to East Berlin two years later, in 1951
Country: Germany
Subject: Painting (mixed media) in a Japanese-inspired style, created in 1949, likely on the island of Rügen in a Bodden, set against a sunset and featuring a figure on the right. The work is deeply poetic and executed with the meticulous care typical of German precision, drawing inspiration from Japanese artists such as Hiroshige.
Medium: mixed media on paper
Signature: signed lower left (see photo)
Condition: superb, no foxing
* This work can be considered one of his major landscape creations.
It is a little gem of Baltic poetry
.
** This work has never been offered at public auction and comes from the same collection as the work by Vano Meliashvili (Georgian primitivist) Formerly part of an Israeli collection in France.
*** Dimensions of the artwork (unframed): 24 cm x 31 cm
Short biography: Since 1945, he has taught as a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin-Charlottenburg, located in the Western occupation zone (later West Berlin).
A longtime member of the Communist Party (KPD), his political views led to growing friction with Western university authorities at the dawn of the Cold War.
The year 1949 marked the end of his collaboration with Karl Hofer on the publication of the leading art journal Bildende Kunst (which they had co-edited since 1947).
A former figure in the constructivist avant-garde and proletarian art movements of the 1920s, Nerlinger began to align himself strictly with Soviet cultural policy in 1949.
As the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was officially founded in October 1949, he laid the foundations for his aesthetic allegiance to “state socialist realism” , which would ultimately drive him to flee to East Berlin two years later, in 1951
1 200 €
Period: 20th century
Style: Modern Art
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Water color
Length: 31 cm
Height: 24 cm
Reference (ID): 1803235
Availability: In stock
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