Sitzende mit Strumpfband (Bildnis R.). Um 1921/23.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed and titled "Bildnis R." on the reverse. 98 x 72.5 cm (38.5 x 28.5 in). [JS].

• Tappert was a protagonist of the Berlin avant-garde: In 1910, he founded the "Neue Sezession" with Max Pechstein and the other "Brücke" artists and in 1918 the "Novembergruppe" (1918-1933), a group of expressionists, futurists, DADA artists and other Bauhaus members.
• During the days of the Weimar Republic, his works were dominated by eccentric parallel worlds of cabaret, circus and carnival, motifs that were also characteristic of the oeuvres of Dix, Beckmann and Grosz at that time.
• The depicted "Fräulein Rosenberg", a friend of his first wife, was among his preferred models in those days.
• In an eccentric pose and half naked in front of a bright green background, the "Bildnis R." is a remarkable example from this creative period.
• Consistent provenance: From the artist's estate, the work was sold into a Berlin private collection in 1968 where it remained to date.

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate.
Annaliese Tappert Collection (1957 to 1968).
Private collection Berlin (acquired from the above in 1968, ever sicne family-owned).

EXHIBITION: Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus Berliner Privatbesitz, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1978, (fig. p. 259).
Georg Tappert. Ein Berliner Expressionist 1880 bis 1957, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1980-1981.
Georg Tappert. Deutscher Expressionist, Schloss Gottdorf, Schleswig / Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 2005, cat. no. 59 (fig. p. 101).

LITERATURE: Gerhard Wietek, Georg Tappert 1880-1957. Ein Wegbereiter der Deutschen Moderne, Munich 1980, catalogue raisonné no. 229 (fig.).