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"Zwei Nackte Knaben" by Emil Maetzel (German 1877-1955), Ink and Watercolors
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German ink and water colours painted on paper by the artist, Emil Maetzel 1877 - 1955 “Zwei Nackte Knaben”1935. a deft ink painting of two adolescent boys in the shower, one standing in the foreground catching the water spray in his left hand, the other boy in the background bent over washing his left ankle, the void blackened, the figures in green and the water in blue. Signed in the lower left “Maetzel ‘35”.
Excellent condition. Image measuring: 20in. high by 10-1/4in. wide. (51cm x 26cm)
Frame measuring: 28-7/8in. high by 19in. wide (73.5cm x 48.5cm)
Ex Collection: Private Collector, New York.
Biographical details from the Exhibition: Ein Künstlerpaar Der Moderne” - Artist Couple in the Modern Movement Emil Maetzel and Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen 23 November 2018 - 24 March 2019, Museum August Macke Haus, Bonn.
"Emil Maetzel (1877-1955) and Dorothea Maetzel Johannsen (1886-1930) were important representatives of the artistic avant-garde in Hamburg in the first years of the Weimar Republic when the spirit of renewal resounded through German society. With the founding of the Hamburg Secession in 1919, the city experienced a second important phase of Expressionism, one in which the Maetzels played a decisive role.
Emil Maetzel studied architecture and was a self-taught painter. Although Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen attended drawing school, she too was not professionally trained as an artist. In Berlin, where Emil Maetzel was stationed during the First World War, the couple benefited from opportunities to visit important exhibitions such as the Berlin Secession and Herwarth Walden's "Der Sturm" Gallery. A decisive event for the artists was their discovery of African art, which they began to collect and whose figures they integrated into their works.
1919 to 1923 were the years of Hamburg's first artist festivals, which ignited a veritable firework of racy performances by dancers, singers and actors and provided the outlet for a more permissive societal cohesion. The festivities helped bring staid citizens together with members of the artistic Bohème. The ever exotic settings and costumes were the results of the fantasy of artists, among whom Emil Maetzel played a prominent role as painter. Artistic freedom found its intellectual expression in the emancipation of living styles from conventional ideas of morality.
The Maetzels followed diverging artistic paths in the 1920s. With visits to Paris (1925) and Gotland (1929) Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen underlined her increasing independence before she died of heart problems in 1930 at the age of only 44. Emil survived her by 25 years. In 1933 the 12th Exhibition of the Hamburg Secession is closed down by the Nazi regime and Maetzel was dismissed from the Civil Service. Five of Maetzel’s wood cuts owned by the Kunsthalle were “cleared” from the museum and probably destroyed amongst many others.
In his house in Volksdorf he then spent lonely years, although taking advantage of the opportunity for painting excursions in northern Germany. After 1945 he started out on a new productive phase promoted as the leader of the Hamburg City Planning Commission and appointed President of the re-founded “Hamburg Secession” in 1948."
- Creator:Emil Maetzel (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 28.88 in (73.36 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)Depth: 0.33 in (8.39 mm)
- Style:Expressionist (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1935
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Point Richmond, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: TM-CY933081stDibs: LU1778241857452
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