Lot 25: Curt Ehrhardt(1895 Ziesar/Kreis Jerichow - 1972

Curt Ehrhardt(1895 Ziesar/Kreis Jerichow - 1972 Schwarz/Hessen). Nacht-Angriff. 1932 Oil on canvas . Monogrammed and dated lower right. Signed, dated 1. Juni 1932, titled and inscribed Brandenburg'on the reverse. Once more signed, dated 21. VI. 33'and inscribed Brdbg. Havel'on the upper edge of the folded canvas.48,3 x 64 cm (19 x 25,1 in). Peter Arlt, Des Lebens dunkle Tänze. Der Maler Curt Ehrhardt 1895-1972, Weimar/Lauenförde 2002, p. 118 (with illustration in colours). When Ehrhardt painted his war pictures around 1933 from memories of the first world war, he must have known Otto Dix's haunting triptych Der Krieg (1929-1932). Those passionate appeals were ignored as were the apocalyptic visions of bombed-out cities painted by Ludwig Meidner before the first world war. In Dix and in Ehrhardt, war is depicted from the standpoint of those affected by it. There is no place for heroics. [KD] Good overall impression. Small dent upper right. Edges negligibly rubbed.