Lot 322 Dα

Hermann Huber's greatest successes fall into the period between 1908 and 1930, when he was considered to be the leading Swiss Expressionist. In 1910/11 he spent a year in Jerusalem, where he assisted Father Willibrord in the execution of the mural paintings decorating the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition on Mount Zion. In 1911 he became a member of “Der Moderne Bund” founded that year by Hans (Jean) Arp. The group was one of the first artists' association to attract wide attention and to encourage the critical reception of modern art in Switzerland. He exhibited with the Berlin Secession in 1911, 1912 and 1918 and at the 1912 “Sonderbund” exhibition in Cologne. In 1913 Herwarth Walden presented a total of 14 of his works at the “Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon”.
Many of Huber's works treat religious subjects. The paintings of his Expressionist phase (approximately from 1904 to 1918) are characterised by strong black contour lines and tightly organised compositions.