4039384. EBERHARD VIEGENER (1890-1967). Landscape with a farm.
Description
Eberhard Viegener (1890-1967), Landscape with Farm, oil on panel, 1929, signed and dated lower right, ca. 61 x 75 cm, with frame approx. 76 x 91 cm
Viegener comes from Soest and initially completed an apprenticeship as a painter in his father's company. He continued his artistic education autodidactically, but was friendly with the artists Arnold Topp, Wilhelm Morgner and Wilhelm Wulff. In 1919, Düsseldorf gallerist Alfred Flechtheim became aware of him and signed him. Viegener is regarded as an expressionist and representative of New Objectivity. Under the National Socialists, his works were sometimes defamed as 'degenerate. ' In 1946, together with Herta Hesse, the then director of the Karl-Ernst Osthaus Museum, and Wilhelm Wessel, he founded the Westdeutscher Künstlerbund, whose chairman was from 1947.
Condition
Partially with minor retouching, minor signs of wear.
4039384. EBERHARD VIEGENER (1890-1967). Landscape with a farm.
Description
Eberhard Viegener (1890-1967), Landscape with Farm, oil on panel, 1929, signed and dated lower right, ca. 61 x 75 cm, with frame approx. 76 x 91 cm
Viegener comes from Soest and initially completed an apprenticeship as a painter in his father's company. He continued his artistic education autodidactically, but was friendly with the artists Arnold Topp, Wilhelm Morgner and Wilhelm Wulff. In 1919, Düsseldorf gallerist Alfred Flechtheim became aware of him and signed him. Viegener is regarded as an expressionist and representative of New Objectivity. Under the National Socialists, his works were sometimes defamed as 'degenerate. ' In 1946, together with Herta Hesse, the then director of the Karl-Ernst Osthaus Museum, and Wilhelm Wessel, he founded the Westdeutscher Künstlerbund, whose chairman was from 1947.
Condition
Partially with minor retouching, minor signs of wear.
