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Lot 381 D

Herm Dienz - Sizilianische Küstenlandschaft bei Taormina

Auction 1070 - overview Cologne
03.06.2016, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.500 €
Result: 3.224 € (incl. premium)

Herm Dienz

Sizilianische Küstenlandschaft bei Taormina
1925

Oil on thin panel 74.8 x 98 cm Framed (presumably artist's frame). Signed and dated 'Herm Dienz. 1925.' in black lower right. - In some areas, especially in the lower part, with various older losses of colour; professionally cleaned and restored.

According to the information given by Britta Klöpfer, this is a motif from the journey to Sicily in 1925 which the artist finished later with the help of sketches and photographs in his studio in Westerwald. The large-scale format of this impressive coastal depiction is quite beautiful, as well as unusual rare in his oeuvre. The only other known painting from Sicily is located in the Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz (Klöpfer WV 25006). In graphics, the journey is reflected in the lithographic cycle "Siciliana", among others. (Britta Klöpfer, Herrn Dienz. Ein rheinischer Maler und Graphiker zwischen Figuration und Abstraktion. Monographie und Werkverzeichnis (Diss.), Bonn 2001, cf. p. 27, p. 118)

Certificate

Not recorded by Klöpfer; with a written confirmation by Britta Klöpfer, Koblenz, to the former owner

Provenance

Formerly West German private collection, in family possession

Literature

Hannes Schmidt, Herm Dienz, Cologne 1979, cf. p. 23 (on a sojourn in Sicily)