Clouds and Waves
Werner Scholz (Berlin 1898 - Alpbach/Tirol 1982)
Lot-No. 380
Proceeds : 2.400 €
1979. Oil/fibre board. 26,5 x 34,5 cm. Lo. ri. monogr. and dat. WS 79. Scratch. - German painter. S. studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin from 1916-21, interrupted by military service in France, which cost him his left arm. Stylistically, his paintings show clear echoes of Nolde and the Brücke, but also connect to the socially critical themes of Grosz and Dix. Exposed to the harassment of the 'Third Reich', he withdrew to Tyrol in 1939. All the works in his Berlin studio were lost in 1944. Mus.: Vienna (Albertina), Cologne (Wallraf-Richartz-Mus.), Munich (Bayr. Staatsgemäldesammlung), Moscow, Detroit a. others. Lit.: Vollmer.
Werner Scholz: Clouds and Waves
Werner Scholz (Berlin 1898 - Alpbach/Tirol 1982)
Clouds and Waves
Lot-No. 380
Proceeds : 2.400 €
1979. Oil/fibre board. 26,5 x 34,5 cm. Lo. ri. monogr. and dat. WS 79. Scratch. - German painter. S. studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin from 1916-21, interrupted by military service in France, which cost him his left arm. Stylistically, his paintings show clear echoes of Nolde and the Brücke, but also connect to the socially critical themes of Grosz and Dix. Exposed to the harassment of the 'Third Reich', he withdrew to Tyrol in 1939. All the works in his Berlin studio were lost in 1944. Mus.: Vienna (Albertina), Cologne (Wallraf-Richartz-Mus.), Munich (Bayr. Staatsgemäldesammlung), Moscow, Detroit a. others. Lit.: Vollmer.
