Oil on canvas
Signed lower left. Signed and inscribed "3. rue campagne 1ière. Paris." on verso. With inscription on stretcher. 113 x 108,5 cm (44,4 x 42,7 in)

PROVENANCE: Paul Ferdinand Schmidt, Magdeburg (1912 acquired directly from the artist).
Dr. Lex, Berlin (as of 1956).
Private collection Amberg (since 1982).

EXHIBITION: Hanns Bolz (1885-1918). Ein Künstler zwischen Expressionismus und Kubismus, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum und Museumsverein Aachen, 20 January - 17 March 1985, p. 19, no. 7 (with illu. in colors).

He took part in the "Sonderbund" exhibition in Cologne in 1912, the Armory Show in New York and Chicago and in Herwarth Walden's 1st Deutscher Herbstsalon (German Fall Salon ) in Berlin in 1913. In 1912/13 he made designed the cover of Walden’s “Sturm“ several times. His art shows a clear occupation with French Cubism and Fauvism, as early as in 1912 he began experimenting with abstract elements. The arti