Heinrich Vogeler

Heinrich Vogeler 1872 - 1942 Galizisches Gehöft. 1916. Oil on cardboard. Inscribed with the artist's name and dated by a hand other that the artist's in the lower left, as well as with a barely legible inscription reading “Biodn [?]”. 54.5 x 41.5 cm (21.4 x 16.3 in). • Heinrich Vogeler was one of the leading figures of the Worpswede artists' colony. • During World War I, he was stationed as an intelligence officer on the Eastern Front. • A healing idyll: Instead of addressing the horrors of war, Vogeler deliberately painted the towns and landscapes surrounding him. • Paintings created during the war are extremely rare on the auction market. PROVENANCE: Friedrich Netzel Bookstore, Worpswede. Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in the 1970s). In the family’s possession ever since. EXHIBITION: Heinrich Vogeler. Gedenkausstellung, Kunsthalle and Haus im Schluh, Worpswede, May 27–Sept. 17, 1972, cat. no. 57. Worpswede–Moskau. Das Werk von Heinrich Vogeler, Barkenhoff and Worpsweder Kunsthalle, Worpswede, July 29–Nov. 8, 1989, p. 260, cat. no. 76 (with ill., p. 120). LITERATURE: Manfred Bruhn (ed.) and Rena Noltenius, Heinrich Vogeler 1872–1942: Ein Leben in Bildern, Fischerhude 2013, CR no. 204 (with ill.). - - Bernd Küster, Heinrich Vogeler im Ersten Weltkrieg, Bremen 2004, p. 33 (with ill.). Heinrich Vogeler, letter from November 1915, quoted from: Exhibition catalog Worpswede–Moskau. Das Werk von Heinrich Vogeler, Worpswede 1989, p. 130. Heinrich Vogeler, letter from November 1915, quoted from: exhibition catalog Worpswede - Moskau. Das Werk von Heinrich Vogeler, Worpswede 1989, p. 130. Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 15.28 h +/- 20 min.

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