Head (Red and Yellow)
Willi Nass (Hamburg 1899 - Hamburg 1966)
Lot-No. 163
Proceeds : 5.300 €
Oil/cardboard, 52,5 x 36 cm, lo. l. signed and dated Nass 1937. on reverse with address of artist's studio. - Provenance: former Galerie Herold, Hamburg. - Hamburg painter, studied at the Hamburg arts school under W. Battermann, H. Kolitz and E. Eitner, after beginning in New Objectivity he turned to abstraction, in 1937 parts of his oeuvre were seized by the Nazis as 'degenerate', after World War II he developed a figurative geometrical style. Mus.: Hamburg (Museum f. Kunst u. Gewerbe). Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Heydorn, M. Bruhns: Kunst in der Krise a. others.
Willi Nass: Head (Red and Yellow)
Willi Nass (Hamburg 1899 - Hamburg 1966)
Head (Red and Yellow)
Lot-No. 163
Proceeds : 5.300 €
Oil/cardboard, 52,5 x 36 cm, lo. l. signed and dated Nass 1937. on reverse with address of artist's studio. - Provenance: former Galerie Herold, Hamburg. - Hamburg painter, studied at the Hamburg arts school under W. Battermann, H. Kolitz and E. Eitner, after beginning in New Objectivity he turned to abstraction, in 1937 parts of his oeuvre were seized by the Nazis as 'degenerate', after World War II he developed a figurative geometrical style. Mus.: Hamburg (Museum f. Kunst u. Gewerbe). Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Heydorn, M. Bruhns: Kunst in der Krise a. others.