Pfefferfresser. 1931.
Watercolor.
Signed and dated in bottom center and titled in lower left. On firm J. W. Zanders wove paper (with watermark). 69.5 x 46.5 cm (27.3 x 18.3 in), the full sheet.
[AR].

• Part of a group of watercolors that Böckstiegel dedicated to the wild animals at the famous Dresden zoo.
• Large work in bold colors.
• Formerly owned by a friend, the jeweler Rudolf Feldmann from Bielefeld.

PROVENANCE: Rudolf Feldmann Collection, Bielefeld (according to a list of pictures compiled by Böckstiegel, the work was acquired for 150 Mark from the artist in Nov. 1932).
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Hamburg/Bielefeld.

EXHIBITION: Kosmos Böckstiegel - Künstler und Sammler, Städtische Galerie in der Reithalle, Schloss Neuhaus, Paderborn June 16 - October 7, 2018.
Hermann Stenner und seine Zeit, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, January 20 - June 9, 2019, cat. no. 26 (illu. in color on p. 119).
Peter August Böckstiegel. Expressionismus. Werke aus der Sammlung Bunte. Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll, September 9 - October 23, 2022, Schloss Evenburg, Leer-Loga October 30, 2022 - January 10, 2023, cat. no. 20 (illu. in color on p. 18 in the exhibition brochure).

LITERATURE: Vita v. Wedel, P. A. Böckstiegel - Werkverzeichnis der Pastelle, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Bielefeld 2001, no. A274 (illu. in color on p. 200).