Still life where an african object of his collection is depicted ·  Emil Maetzel · ID: 3032449

Description

mixing technique in oil, painted on wood, signed at the bottom on the left “EM21”, in black wooden frame with broad rim;
artistically Emil Maetzel was primarily influenced by the expressionistic artists of the “Brücke” group. He collected african sculpture and adopted forms and colours in his primitive paintings. He developed an expressionistic style of his own; additional: oracle bowl “agere ifa”, wood, middle brown patina, a female figure kneeling on a disc-shaped base, supporting a flat plate-like receptacle on the head, slightly dam., missing parts, cracks; H: 17cm, D: 15 cm

Exposition

Hamburger Museum für Kunst- und Gewerbe