Lot no. 202
East German Art Hermann Glöckner Untitled (Kinetic composition). 1959. oil paint with brush on glassine paper. 27 x 43.5 cm (70 x 50 cm). Signed in pencil, signed, dated and inscribed verso. Mounted in spots on card. - With a vertical crease and slight creases throughout due to the paper, bleached in one place. Good overall. Excellent format-filling depiction with strong application of colour. Not in Güse. - Precisely dated and inscribed "handgez. Oil colour, 15 07 59, / 4". - "In painting and drawing, too, Glöckner (since 1959, note) lent expression and form to movement in rapid sweeps, powerful strokes of palette knife, smudging blotches or twitching strokes." (Güse, p. 42 cited in Werner Schmidt et al., H. G. zum 100. Geburtstag, 1989, p. 24f.) Oil paint on glassine paper. Signed, verso signed, dated ("15 07 59") and annotated as oil drawing, all with pencil. Spot-mounted to underlying card-board. - With one vertical crease, and due to the structure of the glassine paper with slight creasing overall, with little wear at one place. All in all good. Superb full-format drawing with intense colouring. - 'In painting and drawing, too, Glöckner (from 1959 onwards) lent expression and form to movement in rapid sweeps, powerful strokes of the palette knife, smudging blotches or twitching strokes.' (Güse, p. 42, cf. Werner Schmidt et al., H. G. zum 100. Geburtstag, 1989, p. 24f.) This work is taxed. The hammer price is subject to a 24.95% surcharge and the final invoice amount to 7% (books, prints except serigraphs) or 19% VAT (only for serigraphs and photographs) in the European Union. This work is subject to the regular margin scheme. There is a 24.95% buyer's premium on the hammer price and 7% (Books, Prints except Screenprints) or 19% VAT (Screenprints or Photographs) on the final invoice amount in the European Union. 2000
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Modern and contemporary art
14163 Berlin - Germany
07/05/2025
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