Lot 291: Plan eines Automaten

Spangenberg, Herbert Hamburg 1907 - Hamburg 1984
Plan eines Automaten
Oil/masonite, 126 x 100 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. Spangenberg 61, on the reverse titled.
The painting was exhibited: Herbert Spangenberg, retrospective. Hamburgische Landesbank 2002, cat. no. 26.

German painter. After an apprenticeship as ornamental painter under O. Schmarje S. studied at the Hamburg school of applied arts under C. O. Czeschka a. J. Wohlers where he made friends among others with E. Bargheer, K. Kluth a. A. Fiedler. He travelled Paris a. Copenhagen. After a time of inward emigration during the Nazi time he joined the re-established Hamburg secession. He declined an offer of K. Hofer for a professorship in Berlin as well as the Rome prize of the Villa Massimo, but accepted the Edwin Scharff prize in 1958. S. also received numerous public commissions.