Online - Modern and Contemporary Art Albert Wigand o.T.Eilsendung x près, 1959. 1959. Collage with printed papers, fabrics, opaque colours, spot-mounted on blue metallic paper. 14.8 x 12 cm. Mounted at points on support and mounted in passepartout. Signed, dated and inscribed "oben" on the verso of the paper. "oben" and "59" again verso on the blue metallic paper. - Paper slightly stained on verso. The blue metallic paper with creases in the corners, marginal tears (the longest approx. 0.5 cm) and losses. Good overall. Grüß-Wigand, Grüß, Matt C-1959/2 - We would like to thank Mrs Christiane Grüß for confirming the authenticity of the work. - Provenance: Private collection, Berlin. - Exhibition "Willem Grimm, Ernst Hassebrauk, Josef Hegenbarth, Albert Wigand" at Galerie Christian Zwang, Berlin 2002 - The draughtsman, collagist and painter studied at the Düsseldorf School of Arts and Crafts until 1913. Wigand retained the urge to express himself artistically even during his deployment in the First World War, where he had his first exhibition in 1916 in the German-occupied town of Rethel in France. At the end of the war, Wigand travelled to Berlin, where he met Christian Rohlfs and Curt Hermann. This was followed by the Dresden years from 1925 to 1970, during which Wigand developed an avant-garde formal language, while at the same time creating landscape views that enabled him to secure his livelihood during the economic crisis of the 1920s and 1930s and the Second World War. After 1945, he significantly reduced his formal language once again and became more abstract. He increasingly turned to the medium of collage, working with different materials, so that our work from 1959 is a work typical of his late phase. Collage with printed papers, fabrics, opaque colours mounted in spots on blue metallic paper. Spot-mounted to underlying mat and presented in passepartout. Signed, dated and inscribed "oben" on the verso of the paper. "oben" and "59" again on the verso of the blue metallic paper. - Paper slightly stained on the verso. The blue metallic paper with creases in the corners, marginal tears (the longest approx. 0.5 cm) and losses. Good overall. - We would like to thank Mrs Christiana Grüß for assessing the work on the basis of photos. - Provenance: Private collection, Berlin. - Exhibition "Willem Grimm, Ernst Hassebrauk, Josef Hegenbarth, Albert Wigand" at Galerie Christian Zwang, Berlin 2002. - The draughtsman, collagist and painter studied at the Düsseldorf School of Arts and Crafts until 1913. Wigand retained the urge to express himself artistically even during his deployment in the First World War, where he had his first exhibition in 1916 in the German-occupied town of Rethel in France. At the end of the war, Wigand travelled to Berlin, where he met Christian Rohlfs and Curt Hermann. This was followed by the Dresden years from 1925 to 1970, during which Wigand developed an avant-garde formal language, while at the same time creating landscape views that enabled him to secure his livelihood during the economic crisis of the 1920s and 1930s and the Second World War. After 1945, he significantly reduced his formal language once again and became more abstract. He increasingly turned to the medium of collage, working with different materials, so that our work from 1959 is a work typical of his late phase. 600