Hermann Friedrich Bieling - Köpfe - image-1

Lot 290 D

Hermann Friedrich Bieling - Köpfe

Auction 1110 - overview Cologne
01.06.2018, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €

Hermann Friedrich Bieling

Köpfe
1928

India ink and pencil on chamois-coloured, ribbed laid paper with watermark (man on ball) 32 x 25.8 cm Framed under glass. Dedicated and dated 'Bieling aan Alfred Flechtheim/ Rotterdam 19.11.28/ "Hondert jaren na dezen in de Gloria" ' in Dutch in pen and ink. Signed 'H. F. Bieling' verso in ink in lower margin. - In fine condition with minor studio traces.

As a student in Rotterdam and Paris the Dutch painter, sculptor and printmaker Hermann Friedrich Bieling occupied himself with Cubism, Dada and the works of Archipenko and Brancusi, among others. In the 1920s he created images of figures, landscapes and still lifes influenced by Cubism. He may have met the Berlin gallerist Alfred Flechtheim, to whom he dedicated this note of congratulation, through artist friends. Flechtheim had celebrated his 50th birthday on 1 April 1928.