4909 - Zimmermann, Mac

Zimmermann, Mac (1912 Stettin – Munich 1995). Evening. Oil on hardboard. Signed and dated (19)54; signed, titled, dated, and inscribed on the reverse. 70 x 50 cm. Framed. A couple in a nocturnal landscape appears closely entwined against the abstract suggestion of trees. Two additional figures become visible in the surreal landscape against the low horizon. Mac Zimmermann almost always transports the viewer into such deep and indefinable spaces, far removed from reality. Despite the emptiness and barrenness, our painting conveys a tender connection and intimate closeness that lies entirely in the couple in the foreground. As one of the few of his generation, Zimmermann—who served as a professor in Berlin and later in Munich—did not turn to abstract painting after World War II, but rather to representational painting closely related to Surrealism. - With small chips in the paint layer. Evening. Oil on hardboard. Signed and dated (19)54, signed, dated, and inscribed on the reverse. - With small chips in the paint layer. - Framed.