Lot 146: The Teufelsmoor

Tügel, Otto Tetjus
Hamburg 1892 - Bremervörde 1973
The Teufelsmoor
Watercolour, 54 x 40 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. O. T. Tügel 1935, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Painter, poet, musician a. bonvivant. T. was trained at the Hamburg school of applied arts. He became the central figure of expressionist painters in Worpswede, but also was co-founder of the Hamburg secession. His rich pictorial language changes between soft verves a. crystalline structures referring to cubism, later it is dominated by a neo-mannerist design vocabulary. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Museum). - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Rump, Der Neue Rump, Bruhns 'Kunst in der Krise', exh. cat. Ewers-Schultz 'O.T.T. als Maler' (Haspa) a. others.