Boot im Sturm (Die Ruderer). Um 1924.
Oil on structured cloth.
Signed in lower left. Inscribed and numbered "1167" in pencil on the reverse. 148.5 x 124.5 cm (58.4 x 49 in).
[KT].

• Rare contemporary document: Spiegel's early work was almost completely destroyed during the war.
• The mid-1920s marked the young artist's breakthrough: in 1925 he became a professor at the Stuttgart Academy and took part in exhibitions organized by the Berlin Secession and the November Group.
• Large-format work with maximum tension and dynamism, the figures seem to burst the canvas.

PROVENANCE: Rolf Deyhle Collection, Stuttgart.
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Hamburg/Bielefeld.

EXHIBITION: Hermann Stenner: "Erst ordentlich Zeichnen lernen". Der Maler als Zeichner, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, September 21, 2019 - February 2, 2020.

LITERATURE: Bassenge, Berlin, auction on June 6, 2009, Moderne Kunst Teil I & II, lot 7322 (illu.).