Georg Schrimpf Lot n° 149

Georg Schrimpf Girl at the window 1927 Watercolor over pencil on chamois-colored textile-textured wove paper. 42.2 x 33 cm. Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'G. Schrimpf 27.' in brown ink lower right. With a confirmation of authenticity from Karl-Ludwig Hofmann, Heidelberg, dated July 15, 1991 Provenance Private collection, Lower Saxony Literature Exhib. Cat. Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, fall 1992, cat. No. 239, back cover with full-page color illus. Herwarth Walden, editor of the magazine "Der Sturm" and owner of the gallery of the same name in Berlin, made his journalistic and galleristic opportunities available to the young Schrimpf from 1915. And finally, the artist and publicist Franz Roh also uses the term post-Expressionist to describe the new painting style of the 1920s, the New Objectivity that caused a sensation: "Above all, however, the new art now no longer wants to understand the world dynamically, but statically, a decisive change that is likely to reach far beyond the visual arts." (Franz Roh, Georg Schrimpf. Seine kunstgeschichtliche Stellung, written in 1924 for a planned book on Georg Schrimpf, in: Georg Schrimpf und Maria Uhden, Leben und Werk, ed. by Wolfgang Storch, Berlin 1985, p. 142). "Mädchen lesend", "Mädchen auf dem Balkon", "Mädchen am Fenster" or the watercolor-related painting "Ausschauende" are pictures full of idealism; they show an idea of reality, which the artist describes with meticulousness and detailed accuracy, in which his models act. Contemporary events may have a marginal influence, and trips to Ascona or Sicily, for example, are reflected in small details in the watercolors and paintings.