Kreuzabnahme. 1918.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower left. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed in typography on a label on the reverse. 110 x 90 cm (43.3 x 35.4 in). [AW].

• Expressive depiction of one of the most important motifs in art history.
• Master student of Adolf Hölzel at the Stuttgart Art Academy.
• Alongside Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister, member of the “Üecht” group.
• In 1916 the artist took part in the legendary exhibition "Hölzel und sein Kreis" in Freiburg and Frankfurt am Main.

We are grateful to Ms. Vanessa Sigalas for her kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate (until at least the mid-1950s).
Galerie Dorn, Stuttgart.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Hamburg/Bielefeld (acquired from the above in 2012).

EXHIBITION: Das Glück in der Kunst. Expressionismus und Abstraktion um 1914, Sammlung Bunte, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, March 21 - August 3, 2014, p. 134 (illu. in color).
“Hermann Stenner und seine Zeit: ".. dies Streben nach dem ganz Grossen etwas in der Kunst ..", Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, January 20 - August 18, 2019, cat. no. 36.
Die Sammlung Bunte. Expressionistische Meisterwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts, Ausstellungszentrum Gut Altenkamp, Papenburg, July 12 - October 25, 2020.

LITERATURE: Vanessa Sigalas, Der Maler Heinrich Eberhard (1884-1973). Monograph and catalogue raisonné of the paintings, Weimar 2014, no. G-1918.09a (illu. in color on p. 460).
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Nagel Auktionen, auction 684, June 27, 2012, lot 253 (illu. in color on p. 44).