Hartmann, Erich Stehende Frau. Um 1972. Tempera auf Leinwand. Ca. 91 x 72 cm. Verso signiert, betitelt und datiert (durchgestrichen) sowie von fremder Hand bezeichnet. Gerahmt (ungeöffnet). - Punktuel…

German Post War Hartmann, Erich Standing woman. Circa 1972. Tempera on canvas. Approx. 91 x 72 cm. Signed, titled and dated (crossed out) verso and inscribed in an unknown hand. Framed (unopened). - Minor surface rubbing and scattered scratches in places, the latter predominantly in the lower area of the image. Slight moisture stains in the right-hand area of the image. No retouching visible under UV. Good overall. Portrait from the artist's late work, in tonal, matte colors with abstract formal language. Werner 273 - Exhibited in: Hamburgische Landesbank 1998, no. 84 - The motif of the seated woman has recurred throughout Erich Hartmann's painterly oeuvre since his early work. Hartmann's constant use of the motif also makes it possible to recognize and depict his artistic development very clearly: The early depictions from around 1913, for example, differ significantly in their still academic painting style from the variants of the 1920s, which are indebted to New Objectivity (cf. Werner 30 and 70). Our work from 1972 is from the late period and was created just two years before the artist's death. In addition to the motif, Hartmann also works significantly here with the colors, which he layers flat and dry, the contours are black and strongly outlined, the formal language simple. Hartmann holds the sitter's cardigan in the signal color red, a stylistic decision that he had already used in 1965 in a comparable portrait of a woman (Werner 223). Looking directly at the observer, Hartmann's sitter appears in a calm, neutral frame. Hartmann has depersonalized the woman in favour of an abstract formal language and shows once again that our work is a personal-style painting from the late period. Tempera on canvas. Signed, titled and dated (crossed out) and inscribed in an unknown hand on the verso. Framed (unopened). - Minor surface rubbing and scattered scratches in places, the latter predominantly in the lower area of the depiction. In the right side of the painting with slight moisture spots. No visible retouching under UV. Good overall. Portrait from the artist's late work, in tonal, matt colors with abstract formal language. - Exhibited in: Hamburgische Landesbank 1998, no. 84 - The motif of the seated woman has recurred throughout Erich Hartmann's painterly oeuvre since his early work. Hartmann's artistic development can be easily recognized and depicted through his constant use of the motif: The early depictions from around 1913, for example, differ significantly in their still academic painting style from the variants of the 1920s, which are indebted to New Objectivity (cf. Werner 30 and 70). Our work from 1972 is from the late period and was created just two years before the artist's death. In addition to the motif, Hartmann also works significantly here with the colors, which he layers flat and dry, the contours are black and strongly outlined, the formal language simple. Hartmann holds the sitter's cardigan in the signal color red, a stylistic decision that he had already used in 1965 in a comparable portrait of a woman (Werner 223). Looking directly at the observer, Hartmann's sitter appears in a calm, neutral frame. Hartmann has depersonalized the woman in favour of an abstract formal language and shows once again that our work is a personal-style painting from the late period.