356 - Werner Scholz* (Berlin 1898 - 1982 Alpbach)

Werner Scholz* (Berlin 1898 - 1982 Alpbach) Montain hamlet, 1966 oil/plate 70 x 60 cm monogrammed W.S. SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 4000 - 6000 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 4000 The German painter Werner Scholz (1898 Berlin – 1982 Alpbach) began his studies at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts in 1916, interrupted them as a volunteer in the First World War (losing his left forearm in 1917), and resumed them in 1919–1920. In 1920, he moved into a studio at Nollendorfplatz and created expressionist black-and-white works as well as socially critical oil paintings of Berlin's urban milieu, inspired by Die Brücke, Emil Nolde, George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Max Beckmann. In 1930, the National Gallery in Berlin and the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne acquired his works; in 1937, he was denounced as "degenerate art," banned from exhibiting, and came into contact with Curt Valentin and Ferdinand Ostertag. In 1939, he moved to Alpbach, Tyrol, to join the Alpbach artists' colony. After 1945, Scholz created pastel cycles on the Apocalypse, the Old Testament, and mythology, later followed by industrial and landscape paintings. A representative of the second generation of Expressionists, Scholz painted with bold gestures, dark colors, and a focus on urban misery and religious/mythical themes; his triptychs include the Steel Triptych (1954 for Krupp). His works are held in the National Gallery in Berlin, the Buchheim Museum, and private collections; he was associated with the November Group. Like Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Scholz is considered an expressive realist of the Weimar era. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.