Tulips

(1895 Strohausen – 1983 Wilhelmshaven) Tulips. A very early Radziwill still life with two long-stemmed tulips against a neutral background, created in 1924 shortly after his transition to the New Objectivity or Magic Realism, following his permanent settlement in Dangast in 1923. In 1924, Radziwill participated in a non-juried exhibition in Berlin with a special display of 17 of his own paintings alongside works by Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Otto Dix, and Wassily Kandinsky. In 1925, Radziwill held his first solo exhibition in Oldenburg with 60 works. Later, he repeatedly returned to the motif of tulips in several larger still lifes, such as "Three Tulips" (1934/1935, Wvz. 411), "Red Tulip" (1942, Wvz. 517), "Two Tulips" (1943, Wvz. 521), as well as in similar elongated vertical depictions of flower stems, for example, "Tulips on Black and White Background" (1946, Wvz. 562) and "White Tulip" (1952, Wvz. 664). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed and marked with the monogram "Fr. R." on the reverse, with the work number 201 and the date "1924" [sic.].

Stamp "Franz Radziwill (/) Nordseebad Dangast b. Varel i. O." and another round, illegible stamp. 27.3 cm x 17 cm. Framed. Literature: Catalogue "Franz Radziwill – Painting, Watercolors, Drawings", Kunsthalle Bremen 1970/71, No. 110; Catalogue "Franz Radziwill", Kunstverein Hannover 1971, p. 62; Wilfried Sieber: "Catalogue of Watercolors, Drawings, and Colored Postcards", Franz Radziwill Society Publishers, Oldenburg 2006, work number 2809 (which gives the date as 1928). Provenance: North German private collection, Oldenburg i. O.