Lot 149 Dα

From 1915 Herwarth Walden, who edited the journal “Der Sturm” and ran the gallery of the same name in Berlin, placed his capacities as a publisher and gallerist at the service of the young Schrimpf. And, finally, the young artist and journalist Franz Roh also used the term Post-Expressionists to describe the new style of painting of the 1920s, the New Objectivity which was causing a sensation: “Above all, however, the new art now no longer wishes to understand the world dynamically, but statically - a decisive reorientation that may reach far beyond visual art.” (Franz Roh, Georg Schrimpf: Seine kunstgeschichtliche Stellung, written in 1924 for a planned book about Georg Schrimpf, in: Georg Schrimpf und Maria Uhden, Leben und Werk, ed. by Wolfgang Storch, Berlin 1985, p. 142). “Mädchen lesend”, “Mädchen auf dem Balkon”, “Mädchen am Fenster” or the painting “Ausschauende”, which is related to the watercolour, are pictures full of idealism; they present an idea of reality within which the artist's models move and which the artist describes meticulously and in detailed precision. Contemporary events may exert a marginal influence, for example, journeys to Ascona or Sicily, which can be recognised in small details in the watercolours and paintings.