4087 - Reinhold Rudolf Junghanns, "Wrack"

Reinhold Rudolf Junghanns, "Wrack" In the moonlight, a boat with a snapped mast glides across the water; the moonlight is reflected in the water in front of the boat. A Symbolist work exploring the tension between existence and transience, mixed media on cardboard, circa 1957, monogrammed ‘RRJ’ in pencil in the bottom right-hand corner, titled on the reverse on an old label and dated 1957 with the location ‘Zurich’, signs of age, framed, old label on the frame bearing the number 1, Inner dimensions: 50 x 65 cm. Artist information: German painter, sculptor and graphic artist (1884, Zwickau - 1967, Zurich), studied at the Dresden Academy under Robert Sterl and Oskar Zwintscher; from 1908, studied at the Munich Academy under Angelo Jank, in 1916, he spent time recuperating and moved to Switzerland; member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany; submitted works to the jury-free exhibitions and the exhibitions of the Munich Secession; initially worked in Sils-Baselgia in the Engadin, from 1922 in Bern and from 1930 in Zurich; sources: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, the register of the Munich Academy, Sikart and the internet.