Lot 25 | Franz Radziwill | Landschaft mit Gebirge (Hohes Elbufer bei Blankenese)

RADZIWILL, FRANZ
1895 Strohhausen/Wesermarsch - 1983 Wilhelmshaven

Title: Landschaft mit Gebirge (Hohes Elbufer bei Blankenese).
Date: 1921/22.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 80 x 86cm.
Notation: Monogrammed lower right: FR.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.

Depicted is the Hohe Elbufer near Blankenese, a motif that the artist already shows and names in a watercolor (cat. rais. Seeba no. 2136). Verso the painting "Fünf Personen im Café" from 1922.

Provenance:
- Galerie Stangl, Munich
- Private collection North Germany

Exhibitions:
- Gallery Nierendorf, Berlin 1980
- Kunsthalle Emden, 2011
- Franz Radziwill House, Dangast 2020

Literature:
- Firmenich, Andrea/Schulze, Rainer W.: Franz Radziwill, 1895 bis 1983 - Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Cologne 1995, cat. rais. no. 108 and 115, ill.
- Cf. Seeba, Wilfried: Franz Radziwill, 1895-1983,Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und bemalten Postkarten, Oldenburg 2006, cat. rais. no. 2136, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Gallery Nierendorf, Berlin 1980, cat. no. 541, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Franz Radziwill - Meisterwerke aus privaten Sammlungen, Kunsthalle Emden, 2011, no. cat. no., p. 42, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Franz Radziwill - Inszenierte Bildräume, Franz Radziwill Haus, Dangast 2020, cat. no. 5, p. 66, ill.


- Paintings of singular quality in the artist's oeuvre
- The unusually free and sweeping strokes unfold a beguiling pull effect
- Early landscape painting that shows the proximity to Expressionism