96 - Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, “Bathtub with Nougat/Rust/Blue”, gouache from 1953, framed

Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, “Bathtub with Nougat/Rust/Blue”, gouache from 1953, framed Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, 1894 Aachen - 1970 Nice, Abstract composition, gouache and pencil, 38 x 52 cm, signed and dated, titled and labelled ‘Davringhausen No. 2’ on the reverse of the plywood panel, mounted and glazed in a black passepartout frame About the artist: German painter associated with New Objectivity and Magical Realism. He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1913-1914 and took private lessons with the painter Wilhelm Eckstein. In 1919, he exhibited for the first time at the Hans Goltz Gallery in Munich, where he met Alexander Kanoldt. In Düsseldorf, he joined the Junge Rheinland group. He was a member of the Berlin November Group and took part in the 1925 exhibition ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’ in Mannheim, which defined both the style and the concept. In Munich, he founded the Neue Sachlichkeit group together with Carlo Mense, Alexander Kanoldt and Georg Schrimpf. In 1929, he took part in the annual exhibition of the German Artists’ Association at the Staatenhaus in Cologne. In 1932, he founded the avant-garde group ‘Gruppe 32’ with Franz W. Seiwert, Heinrich Hoerle, Räderscheidt and Ludwig Egidius Ronig; the group was disbanded a year later. In 1933, he fled Germany, where 200 of his works had been removed from public museums as ‘degenerate art’.