871 - Wilhelm Redemann, landscape near Niedersachswerfen in the Harz, light cliffs in the South Harz, 1940

Wilhelm Redemann, landscape near Niedersachswerfen in the Harz, light cliffs in the South Harz, 1940 (1892 Hanover to 1953 Hanover), oil on canvas, signed, dated 1940 and inscribed with the place name "Niedersachswerfen a. Harz" lower left, label verso "Wilhelm Redemann Hannover", hilly landscape with a wooded mountain and light rock faces, fields and groups of trees before it, at right in the background a farmstead with red roofs, in the foreground a brown field with a track, good condition commensurate with age, retouching, image 59x81 cm (HxW), framed, frame bumped, frame width 5 cm Wilhelm Redemann (1892 to 1953) lived and worked in Hanover as a painter and photographer. He was a pupil of Friedrich Koch and from 1935 worked on the Göttingen Barfüßer Altarpiece of the Provinzialmuseum Hannover. In 1923 he created etchings for Lenau's "Schilflieder", and in 1933 he photographed the Merzbau of Kurt Schwitters. Works by him are held by the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum and the Sprengel Museum Hannover. Niedersachswerfen lies between Nordhausen and Ilfeld in the gypsum karst landscape of the South Harz.