Waldemar Rösler
Strand
1912-1914
Oil on canvas. 58 x 76 cm. Framed. Signed 'Rösler' twice in black lower left and right. Titled, signed and address details by the artist verso. - Fine, colour-fresh condition. Slight craquelure.
The Impressionist Waldemar Rösler was a member of the Berlin Secession founded by Max Liebermann from 1909. His favourite subject was the landscape, mainly of the Berlin hinterland and East Prussia. The ‘Strandbild’ was probably painted in Klein Kuhren near the Curonian Spit, which Rösler visited twice in 1912 and 1914. According to Max Liebermann, his early death in 1916 ‘robbed German art of one of its most beautiful hopes.’
Possibly arranged through Paul Cassirer, who sold around 40 works by Rösler, the painting originally hung in the villa built by Henry van de Velde in 1913/1914 for the textile manufacturer Paul Schulenburg in Gera (today ‘Haus Schulenburg Gera/Henry van de Velde Museum’). His art collection also included the painting ‘Angelnde Knaben’ by Ludwig von Hofmann (lot 117).
Catalogue Raisonné
Not recorded by Laux
Certificate
We would like to thank Stephan Laux, Kaiserslautern, for the friendly confirmatory information
Provenance
Paul Schulenburg, Gera (since 1914); since then in third generation family ownership
Exhibitions
Cf. Berlin 2016/2017 (Liebermann Villa), Waldemar Rösler. Ein Berliner Impressionist