TAPPERT, GEORGBerlin 1880 - 1957


Title: Tänzerin mit erhobenem Fächer.
Date: Ca. 1918/20.
Technique: Oil on paperboard.
Mounting: Laid down on wooden panel.
Measurement: 85 x 59cm.
Notation: Inscribed verso centre by the artist's widow: Dancer with fan by Georg Tappert ca 1918/20 Annalise Tappert 1960.
Frame/Pedestal: Artist's frame.


Provenance:
- Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg (according to the consignor)
- Private collection Northern Germany

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf 1920
- Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1970
- BAT Haus, Hamburg 1977
- Kunsthalle Emden, 1996

Literature:
- Wietek, Gerhard: Georg Tappert - Ein Wegbereiter der Deutschen Moderne, Munich 1980, cat. rais. no. 205, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Wilhelm Morgner, Flechtheim Gallery, Düsseldorf, 1920
- Exhib. cat. Georg Tappert. German Expressionist, Nuremberg 2005, no. 53b, ill. p. 99

- Important representative of the Berlin avant-garde and founding member of the 'November Group', to which George Grosz, Otto Dix and Hannah Höch also belonged
- His depictions of women in the Berlin demimonde of the 1920s mark the high point of his artistic career
- Beautiful, colourful work with clear stylistic references to Orphic Cubism.