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Welcome to Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
120 Main Street, Upton MA 01568-6193; 800-809-3343; email: spaightwood@gmail.com
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Ernst Barlach (German, 1870-1938)
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Barlach, a sculptor, printmaker, and writer, was one of leading figures of German Expressionism. A trip to Russia in 1906 had a lifelong impact on his work: the hunched-over peasants and beggars, the open landscapes of the Russian plains, and the great disparity between the deeply religious lower classes and the frivolity of the upper classes all helped him to develop a basic artistic vocabularly. His work, which presents an image of humanity totally at odds with the Nordic superheroes so beloved of Nazi propaganda art, was condemned by the Nazis as "Degenerate," yet before they came to power, his work was widely shown in Germany and he had been awarded many commissions for public sculptures. After Barlach resigned is p[osition at the Prussian Academy of Art to protest the firing of Kathe Kollwitz, he was hounded almost to death by the Nazis, who stripped him of all of his public posts and confiscated nearly 400 of his works from German museums and destroyed several large public sculptures. There is, consequently, little relationship between the stated size of editions and the actual availability of his prints. Barlach was also an important writer, author of seven plays, and in 1924 was awarded the Kelist Prize for literature.
Selected Bibliography: Ernst Barlach, The Transformations of God. Seven woodcuts. With selections from his writings. trans. Naomi Jackson Groves (Hamburg: Christians, 1962); Ernst Barlach: 1870-1938 (London: Arts Council, 1961); Carl Dietrich Carls, Ernst Barlach (NY: Praeger, 1969); Bruce Davis, German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Volume 2: Catalogue of the Collection (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/ Prestel, 1989); Franz Fuehmann, Ernst Barlach. Das Wirkliche und Wahrhaftige. Briefe, Grafik, Plastik, Dokumente. Fotos von Gisela Paetsch (Wiesbaden: R. Lowit, 197); Naomi Jackson Groves, Ernst Barlach: Leben im Werk (Konigstein in Taunus: K.R. Langewiesche, 1972); Carl Georg Heise, Ernst Barlach zwischen Erde und Himmel: 45 Handzeichnungen (Munich: Piper, 1960); Kent W. Hooper, Ernst Barlach's Literary and Visual Art: The Issue of Multiple Talent. Studies in the Fine Arts: Art Theory, No. 15 (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1987); Elmar Jansen, Ernst Barlach: Werke und Entwürfe aus fünf Jahrzehnten. Ausstellung im Alten Museum. 3 vols. (Berlin. Akademie der Künste der DDR, 1981); Orrel P. Reed, German Exxpressionist Art: The Robert Gore Rifkind Collection (Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, 1977). Kurt Reutti and Günter Busch, Ernst Barlach: Das druckgraphische Werk ed. Dore und Kurt Reutti-Stiftung (Bremen, Kunsthalle, 1968); Friedrich Schult, Ernst Barlach: Das Plastische Werk (Hamburg: Ernst Hauswedell, 1960); Friedrich Schult, Ernst Barlach Das Graphische Werk. Werkverzeichnis Band II. (Hamburg: Ernst Hauswedell & Co., 1958); Friedrich Schult, Ernst Barlach. Werkkatalog der Zeichnungen (Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co, 1971); Wolf Stubbe and Armgard Hardt, Ernst Barlach: A loan exhibition (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service, 1962).
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Demut / Humility (Schult 72, Davis-Rifkind 86), 1916. Published in Paul Cassirer's Der Bilderman (1916), a German art periodical that commissioned and published original lithographs, many of which were against the war, by a number of Expressionist artists including Heckel, Kirchner, Kokoschka, Kollwitz, and Slevogt. At the start of the war, Der Bilderman was caught up in a patriotic furer, but by 1915-1916, the senseless bloodshed on the wester front had moved them to an anti-war psition. Barlach contributed 7 lithographs to Der Bilderman in 1916, after which the government shut it down. Cassirer and Barlach collaborad ona number of deluxe artist's books in the following years. Signed in the stone lower left. Image size: 295x210mm. Price: $1250.
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From a new Dance of Death (Schult 78, Davis-Rifkind 84), 1916. Published in Paul Cassirer's Der Bilderman (1916), a German art periodical that commissioned and published original lithographs, many of which were against the war, by a number of Expressionist artists including Heckel, Kirchner, Kokoschka, and Slevogt. . Published in Der Bilderman (1916). Signed in the stone lower left. Image size: 299x210mm. Price: $1250.
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Anno Domini MCMXVI Post Christum Natum (Schult 80, Davis-Rifkind 83), 1916. Published in Paul Cassirer's Der Bilderman (1916), an German art periodical that commissioned and published original lithographs, many of which were against the war, by a number of Expressionist artists including Heckel, Kirchner, Kokoschka, and Slevogt. Signed in the stone lower left. Image size: 182x235mm. Price: $1250.
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Anno Domini MCMXVI Post Christum Natum (Schult 80, Davis-Rifkind 83), 1916. Published in Paul Cassirer's Der Bilderman (1916), an German art periodical that commissioned and published original lithographs, many of which were against the war, by a number of Expressionist artists including Heckel, Kirchner, Kokoschka, and Slevogt. Signed in the stone lower left. Image size: 182x235mm. Price: $1250.
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Dona Nobis Pacem / Give us peace (Schult 82, Davis-Rifkind 87), 1916. Published on the front cover of the Christmas issue of Der Bilderman (Dec. 20, 1916). Signed in the stone lower left. Image size: 178x232mm. Price: $1250.
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
To purchase, call us at 1-800-809-3343 (508-529-2511 in Upton MA & vicinity) or send an email to spaightwood@gmail.com
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For directions and visiting information, please call. We are, of course, always available over the web and by telephone (see above for contact information). Click the following for links to past shows and artists. For a visual tour of the gallery, please click here. For information about Andy Weiner and Sonja Hansard-Weiner, please click here. For a list of special offers currently available, see Specials.
All works are sold with an unconditional guarantee of authenticity (as described in our website listing).
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Visiting hours: Saturday and Sunday noon to 6 pm and other times by arrangement.
Please call to confirm your visit. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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