374 - Ilse Kresges-Weber* (Essen 1910 - 2002 Essen)

Ilse Kresges-Weber* (Essen 1910 - 2002 Essen) Brown jug with white stopper, 1979 oil and egg tempera/press board 55 x 66 cm signed Ilse Kresges, dated 1979 verso labeled Braune Kanne mit weißem Verschluß. Temp. gef. 55,0x66,0 cm, 1979, 2.500, DM SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 1200 - 2400 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 1200 Ilse Kresges-Weber was a German painter. She lived and worked in Essen and was married to the painter Hermann Kresges. Her body of work is characterized primarily by still lifes, though interiors and representational compositions also exist. Kresges-Weber developed a style of painting marked by objective focus—an approach that can be situated within the context of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) and 20th-century German representational painting. Her pictures center on the careful arrangement of objects, a clear formal language, and the atmospheric interplay of color and light. *Neue Sachlichkeit*—whose diverse manifestations are associated with artists such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Christian Schad, Georg Schrimpf, Alexander Kanoldt, Franz Radziwill, Carl Grossberg, and Georg Scholz—provides a key art-historical frame of reference here. While artists like Dix and Grosz represented the socially critical, veristic side of the movement, Schrimpf, Kanoldt, and Schad exemplify a quieter, object-oriented approach to imagery with a more classical character. Kresges-Weber’s still lifes are best understood in the context of this focused observation of the material world. Her connection to Max Liebermann and Käthe Kollwitz points to an older generation of German art characterized by social and humanitarian engagement, whereas Werner Heuser, Wilhelm Schmurr, and Heinrich Nauen represent key figures in 20th-century painting from the Rhineland and Düsseldorf. Hermann Kresges, whose artistic career was intertwined with that of his wife, also belongs to this regional milieu. Thus, Ilse Kresges-Weber’s work occupies a position between the tradition of representational still-life painting, the formal principles of Neue Sachlichkeit, and the artistic landscape of the Ruhr region. 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.