8175 - Bluth, Manfred

Bluth, Manfred "Moonrise by the Sea" Oil on canvas. 1958/64. 65 x 72 cm. Signed “Bluth” in beige with a brush in the lower right corner and dated; signed again, dated, and titled in black with a brush on the back of the stretcher, and marked “Cat. 2” on the frame (by another hand). The pale light of the rising moon casts cold, shimmering reflections onto the karstic rocky landscape, where the microscopic and macroscopic—the finest details and dark, amorphous forms—merge. In 1947, Manfred Bluth was a master student under Willi Geiger in Munich. As early as 1963, the Gerda Bassenge Gallery in Berlin organized one of the artist’s first solo exhibitions. Provenance: Private collection, Italy (likely acquired directly from the artist) - Please request condition reports for the lots, as the condition is only listed in the catalog in exceptional cases. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.