Erntefeld (verso: Weiden am Bach). Um 1912.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower right. 67 x 77 cm (26.3 x 30.3 in). [CH].

• painted on both sides: with the landscape "Weiden am Bach" on the reverse.
• With an exhibition history thta goes back to the 1950s.
• In 1909 Böckstiegel visited the Museum Folkwang in Hagen, which opened its doors in 1902, where he saw many works by Vincent van Gogh, among them "La moisson (Die Ernte, Kornfeld mit Schnitter)" from 1889.
• In 1912 Böckstiegel saw more than 100 works by the Dutch artist at the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne.
• His fascination with the work of van Gogh would influence his own creation for years.
• In this work Böckstiegel may have been inspired to the motif by van Gogh, however, with regards to flow and the free and impasto colors, he created his very own composition.

PROVENANCE: Rudolf Feldmann Collection (1878-1958), Bielefeld.
Peter Feldmann Collection, Bielefeld.
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Bielefeld.

EXHIBITION: Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts aus dem Besitz des Kunstvereins und seiner Mitglieder, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, March 21 - April 25, 1954, cat. no. 15.
Peter August Böckstiegel, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, July 15 - August 12, 1956, cat. no. 3.
P. A. Böckstiegel (1889-1951), Westfälischer Kunstverein, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, November 9 - December 7, 1969, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, December 18, 1969 - January 25, 1970, cat. no. 4.
Aus Bielefelder Privatbesitz: Malerei und Graphik 1900-1945, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, January 21 - February 25, 1979, cat. nno. 3.
Peter August Böckstiegel, Museumsgesellschaft, Ettlingen, December 10, 1979 - January 18, 1979, cat. no. 3.
Landschaften zeitgenössischer Künstler: Peter August Böckstiegel. Der junge Caspar David Friedrich, Galerie Ernst Michael Winter, Hamburg, November 18 - December 14, 1983, cat. no. 119.
Peter August Böckstiegel. Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, March 5 - May 7, 1989, cat. no. 11.
Peter August Böckstiegel. Menschen und Landschaften, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, October 19, 1997 - January 4, 1998, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, January 25 - March 8. 1998, cat. no. 18a and 18b (fig., p. 210).
Der Westfälische Expressionismus, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, October 31, 2010 - February 20, 2011, Kloster Schussenried, Bad Schussenried, April 9 - June 26, 2011. p. 19, fig. p. 22
Peter August Böckstiegel. Retrospektive des großen Expressionisten, Kloster Schussenried, Bad Schussenried, July 28 - November 3, 2013.
Peter August Böckstiegel und Rudolf Feldmann. Eine Künstlerfreundschaft, Historisches Museum, Bielefeld, Ocotber 13, 2013 to Februray 2, 2014. fig p 128 and p. 129.
Das Glück in der Kunst. Expressionismus und Abstraktion um 1914 (Sammlung Bunte), Kunsthalle Bielefeld, March 21 - August 3, 2014, fig. p.24
Peter August Böckstiegel (1889-1951). Expressionismus (Werke aus der Sammlung Bunte), Holm 2022, p. 5 (fig., no. 2).

LITERATURE: Vita v. Wedel, Peter August Böckstiegel (1889-1951). Beschreibendes Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde (diss.), Hamburg 1986, cat. no. 14 (fig.).
Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen and Vita v. Wedel (ed.), Peter August Böckstiegel. Menschen und Landschaften (Monographie und Werkverzeichnis), Cologne 1997, cat. no. 18a and 18b (fig., p. 210 and plate 12).
David Riedel, Peter August Böckstiegel. Die Gemälde 1910-1951, Munich 2014, p. 44, cat. no. 027 and 027 a (fig., p. 45).

Klinghardt und Biermann (ed.), Peter August Böckstiegel. Junge Kunst, vol. 34, Munich 2020, p. 10 (fig., no. 1).

"I want you to have it, so you can give it to your husband for Christmas. [..] It is an early work that I feel quite attacheed to"
P. A. Böckstiegel to Mrs Feldmann, letter from December 4, 1934, quoted from: G. Renda (ed.), P. A. Böckstiegel und R. Feldmann. Eine Künstlerfreundschaft, Bielefeld 2013, p. 128.