Lot 374 
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374
Heinrich Zille
Frühling am Kanal, Um 1905/1910.
Disegno a gessetto
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Frühling am Kanal. Um 1905/1910.
Chalk drawing.
Signed in lower right. Titled in lower left, different numbers in bottom margin. Once more signed and titled on the reverse and with a blue roundstamp. On cardboard. Image: 31 x 22.3 cm (12.2 x 8.7 in). Sheet: 37,3 x 26,9 cm (14,6 x 10,5 in).
PROVENANCE: Private collection Lower Saxony.
EXHIBITION: Heinrich Zille. Kinder der Straße. Zeichnung, Grafik, Fotografie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, January 10 - March 24, 2008; Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, April 6 - June 8, 2008; Städtische Galerie, Villingen-Schwenningen, June 21 - August 31, 2008.
LITERATURE: Kinder der Straße. 109 Bilder von Heinrich Zille, Berlin 1919, p. 96.
Villa Grisebach, Berlin, Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, November 28, 1991, lot 115 (illu.).
Heinrich Zille – Berliner Leben, ed. by Matthias Flügge, Munich 2008.
".and then there is a third Zille, and that's my favorite. He is neither a humorist nor a satirist. He is only an artist. A few lines, a few strokes, a little color here and there - there goes your masterpiece."
Käthe Kollwitz, in: A. Heilborn, Zeichner des Volkes II, H. Zille, Berlin (after 1927), no p.
Chalk drawing.
Signed in lower right. Titled in lower left, different numbers in bottom margin. Once more signed and titled on the reverse and with a blue roundstamp. On cardboard. Image: 31 x 22.3 cm (12.2 x 8.7 in). Sheet: 37,3 x 26,9 cm (14,6 x 10,5 in).
PROVENANCE: Private collection Lower Saxony.
EXHIBITION: Heinrich Zille. Kinder der Straße. Zeichnung, Grafik, Fotografie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, January 10 - March 24, 2008; Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, April 6 - June 8, 2008; Städtische Galerie, Villingen-Schwenningen, June 21 - August 31, 2008.
LITERATURE: Kinder der Straße. 109 Bilder von Heinrich Zille, Berlin 1919, p. 96.
Villa Grisebach, Berlin, Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, November 28, 1991, lot 115 (illu.).
Heinrich Zille – Berliner Leben, ed. by Matthias Flügge, Munich 2008.
".and then there is a third Zille, and that's my favorite. He is neither a humorist nor a satirist. He is only an artist. A few lines, a few strokes, a little color here and there - there goes your masterpiece."
Käthe Kollwitz, in: A. Heilborn, Zeichner des Volkes II, H. Zille, Berlin (after 1927), no p.
It was particularly in his early years, that Zille painted his works in watercolors, later only occasionally; he shied away from color and was content to execute his sketches and drawings offhand with pencil, charcoal or chalk. He captures the scenes he found in his "Milljöh"(environemnt) with a keen eye and also adds a fitting comment underneath, a combination of line and word that no artist of his time achieved with such ingenious skill. He is not only interested in the humorous depiction of the proletarian, but also in his "Amüsemang" (amusement). Leisure activities, circus performances, bathing establishments or the little witty moments in the daily grind of the working class in the streets of Berlin show that Zille, despite all the hardships inherent to this social environment, always found a warm humorous and life-affirming side to life. Whether young or old, he captured the respective situation with an equally sympathetic and amused eye.
374
Heinrich Zille
Frühling am Kanal, Um 1905/1910.
Disegno a gessetto
Stima:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,350 Risultato:
€ 5,715 / $ 6,115 ( commissione inclusa)