An der Heerstraße. 1918.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower left. 76 x 90 cm (29.9 x 35.4 in).
[AR].
• Early, nighttime street scene, the stage-like lighting and the play of light and shadow make for its special appeal.
• After he had served in World War I, Wunderwald became an important representative of New Objectivity and is considered a chronicler of Berlin city life.
• Exhibited in the posthumous retrospective at the Berlinische Galerie and Städtische Galerie Albstadt on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday.

We are grateful to Mrs Hildegard Reinhardt for her kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Sindelfingen.
Art dealer Werner Fischer, Berlin (with the label on the reverse).
Private collection Lower Saxony (acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Neue Sachlichkeit - 12 Maler zwischen den Kriegen, Galerie von Abercron, Cologne, March 12 - May 3, 1975, cat. no. 17 (illu. p. 14, with the label on the reverse).
Gustav Wunderwald - Gemälde, Handzeichnungen, Bühnenbilder - Eine Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag des Künstlers, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, August 20 - October 10, 1982, Städtische Galerie Albstadt, November 21, 1982 - January 2, 1983, cat. no. 36.

LITERATURE: Hildegard Reinhardt, Gustav Wunderwald (1882-1945). Untersuchungen zum bildkünstlerischen Gesamtwerk, Hildesheim 1988, cat. no. WV 38 (black-and-white illu. on p. 324).