Albert Wigand "Potatoes, Carrots, Radish". 1945/1946. AlbertWigand1890 Ziegenhain/Hesse - 1978 Leipzig. Oil on hardboard. Signed u.l. "Wigand" as well as on the verso in lead again signed "Wigand", with partly illegible address note "Bernhardstr. 115" and dated. Numbered "18" in ballpoint pen (?) and titled. Framed in a wide, profiled, gold-bronze and light grey wooden moulding. The work is included in the supplement to the WVZ Grüß-Wigand under no. A-1946/15. Some small flaws in the painting layer at the corners, at the margin o.r. as well as a small flaw within the depiction r.mi. (approx. 5 x 5 mm). Pastosities pressed. Partially minimal early shrinkage cracks due to painting technique. In the marginal areas traces of paint resp. pressure due to the framing, more clearly o.r. The corners slightly bumped. Measures: 19.8 x 29.8 cm, overall 26.2 x 36.4 cm. Albert Wigand 1890 Ziegenhain/Hesse - 1978 Leipzig Until 1913 studies at the Düsseldorf School of Arts and Crafts under Lothar von Kunowski. From 1913 active in the circle of students of the painter Otto Ubbelohde. During the First World War he works as a medic in France. 1916 first exhibition in occupied northern France. Rethel, initiated by Walter Kaesbach. 1925 moves to Dresden, where he works as a shop window designer 1930-43. At the same time studies nudes with W. Winkler. In the 1930s Wigand developed his own lyrical expressionism. Drawings of village and street scenes in Bohemia, in the Ore Mountains and in Lusatia characterize his oeuvre, which after 1945 was complemented by painterly still lifes. He also assembled his early works into collages, which still make it difficult today to classify them chronologically. His late work, on the other hand, is characterized by an approach to realism in a reduced language of color and form.