RADZIWILL, FRANZ1895 Strohhausen/Wesermarsch - 1983 Wilhelmshaven


Title: Das Wattenmeer.
Date: 1930.
Technique: Oil on wood.
Measurement: 54 x 72cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: Franz Radziwill. Verso inscribed: 159.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Private collection North Germany

Exhibition:
- Landesmuseum Oldenburg, 1946, cat. no. 29
- Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, 1980, cat. no. 29
- Ludolf-Backhuysen-Gesellschaft, Emden 1985

Literature:
- Firmenich, Andrea/Schulze, Rainer W.: Franz Radziwill, 1895 bis 1983 - Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Cologne 1995, cat. rais. no. 357, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Radziwill-Gemälde Sammlung Düser, Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1980, cat. no. 29, ill. (here divergently titled and dated)

- Subtly turning seemingly real worlds into the surreal characterises the artist's oeuvre
- The vastness of the Nordic landscape and the moon shrouded in red lend the work a magical power
- The present subject shows Radziwill's constant confrontation with the danger and transience of human existence
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