Peter August Böckstiegel - Erzählender Bauer - Vater Reiking (Narrating Farmer - Father Reinking) - image-1

Lot 301 R

Peter August Böckstiegel - Erzählender Bauer - Vater Reiking (Narrating Farmer - Father Reinking)

Auction 979 - overview Cologne
31.05.2011, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 9.000 €
Result: 16.335 € (incl. premium)

Peter August Böckstiegel

Erzählender Bauer - Vater Reiking (Narrating Farmer - Father Reinking)
1920

Schwarze Tusche und Gouache 62,6 x 49,3 cm

"Vater Reiking" was a neighboring farmer in Böckstiegel's native Arrode, Westfalia, whom he portrayed in a colour woodcut after the First World War; this impression is very closely related to the gouache offered here. (See Thomas Matuszak, Peter August Böckstiegel, Das druckgraphische Werk, Düsseldorf 1998, nr. 90 with colour ill. p. 46, "Erzählender Bauer" - head and raised forefinger here turned to right). Also in the painting "Das Wort" (The Word; Wedel 86), dated 1920, the speaking expression turned to the viewer and the teaching gesture are similarly formulated.

Certificate

We would like to thank Dr. Vita von Wedel, the author of the catalogue raisonné, for kind confirmation; the sheet will be included in the planned supplement of the catalogue raisonné of pastels, watercolours and drawings by Peter August Böckstiegel.

Provenance

Private possession, Northern Germany, acquired from the estate of the artist