Lot: 701

Rudolf Schlichter (1890 Calw - 1995 Munich)
'Eugenie Perrot', 1934

The portrait shows a middle-aged lady with her dark hair tied back, neatly dressed in a red and white checked blouse and adorned with detailed accessories, sitting in a green patterned wing chair. With her upper body leaning relaxed against the furniture and her hands calmly placed on top of each other, she looks directly at the viewer, although her face is slightly to her right. The direct gaze from the portrait subject to the viewer is a typical means of representation of New Objectivity, an art movement that developed in the 1920s as a realistic and socially critical response to Expressionism and the post-war period.
Rudolf Schlichter was one of the most important representatives of the style and his portraits in that syle were known for their precise richness of detail and at the same time conveyed an intense psychological depth that reflected the inner turmoil and unease of the Weimar Republic. His distanced, almost dissecting style of representation made him one of the most prominent portrait painters of the New Objectivity, who depicted the inner life of his figures with a blunt clarity.
Oil on canvas. 70.5 x 50.5 cm (canvas), 79.5 x 59.5 cm (frame). Signed lower right: R. Schlichter and dated: (19)34 (oil). Verso an adhesive label from the Württembergischer Kunstverein and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin. Framed.

Not deframed. Provenance: Since 1934 in the same privale collection.

Exhibitions: Rudolf Schlichter, Staatl. Kunsthalle Berlin from April 1st - May 16th 1984/Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart from May 23rd - July 1st 1984; Rudolf Schlichter - Eros and Apocalypse, Mittelrhein Museum Koblenz from November 14th 2015 to February 14th 2016 in cooperation with the Talstraße art association in Halle from April 28th - July 24th 2016.

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Hammer Price: 17,000 €