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Heinrich Hoerle, Arbeiter

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Heinrich Hoerle, Arbeiter
Oil on canvas. 81 x 66.5 cm. Framed. Monogrammed 'h' within depiction to upper right margin. Verso signed, dated and titled 'hoerle 1931/3 arbeiter'.

The work will be included in the new Cat. Rais. Backes/Hanstein; Backes 85 (titled "Der Arbeiter")

Provenance
Collection August Sander; Sigrid Sander Biow; Gerd Sander; Private collection, Cologne

Exhibitions
Cologne 1931 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Ausstellung Kölner Künstler; Cologne 1932 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Sammelausstellung; Köln/Kiel 2000 (Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle/Kunsthalle zu Kiel), Zeitgenossen: August Sander und die Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland, cat. no. 387, colour ill. p. 18; Cologne 2008 (Museum Ludwig), Köln Progressiv 1920-1933. Seiwert-Hoerle-Arntz, colour ill. p. 33

Leaving Cologne’s Dada movement behind them, the friends and fellow artists Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Anton Räderscheidt increasingly turned to social content and a simple visual idiom – according to the “Cologne Progressives”, art was to be created in the service of social criticism and it was to be comprehensible to everyone.
At the end of 1919 Seiwert wrote: “We want to do simple work beyond any chattery spirituality […] We use the picture to allow the facts out there become a fact in the picture: profit machines, labour slaves, exploiters and the exploited. Our pictures serve the exploited, of whom we are a part and with whom we feel solidarity; therefore, we reject the supposedly anti-bourgeois, Dadaist harlequinade performed to the delight of the bourgeoisie, because it is not the bankruptcy of the bourgeoisie but the creative will of the masses that we must render visible” (cited in: exh. cat. Heinrich Hoerle, Leben und Werk, Köln 1981, p. 30).
The painter as worker: the painting “Arbeiter” is a self-portrait, a statement on which Heinrich Hoerle created variations in his painting and drawings of the early 1930s. Like the French painter Fernand Léger, who had previously arrived at a mechanistic visual vocabulary during his comradeship with miners, lumberjacks and metalworkers due to the war, it was also Hoerle’s engagement with social themes that led him to his visual idiom reduced to the essential (see exh. cat. Köln 1981, op. cit., pp. 38 f.).
The male figure is depicted frontally and fills the canvas, with his gaze directed at the viewers; the small female figure, on the other hand, is seen from behind and is turned away from the viewers. The relationship between the trees and the smoking chimneys depicted formulaically in the background is no less antithetical. The antitheses of machine – nature, factory – artist, woman – man, verso – recto and light – dark become resolved in the figure, who reconciles factory labour and art in his own portrait.
Relationships between the individual elements of the picture have been ingeniously established through monochrome primary and complementary colours applied in a haptic manner. Just like the differentiated proportions of the picture’s figures and objects, these plumb the spatial continuum. Three-dimensional form is additionally evoked through the alternation of light and dark. The individual elements accordingly fit together like machine parts to guarantee the functioning of the immanent process at work within the picture.
The market-fresh painting “Arbeiter” is among Hoerle’s last oil paintings, because the painter turned to the technique of wax crayon on paper from 1932. A similar work “Arbeiter (Selbstbildnis vor Bäumen und Schornsteinen)”, which was also created in 1931, is now in the collection of Harvard University’s Busch-Reisinger Museum (see Backes 83). Our large-format, prominent painting in museum quality can be counted among the most important in Heinrich Hoerle’s oeuvre.
Heinrich Hoerle, Arbeiter
Öl auf Leinwand. 81 x 66,5 cm. Gerahmt. In der Darstellung am rechten Rand oben monogrammiert 'h'. Rückseitig signiert, datiert und betitelt 'hoerle 1931/3 arbeiter'.

Die Arbeit wird in das neue Werkverzeichnis Backes/Hanstein aufgenommen; Backes 85 (dort betitelt: "Der Arbeiter")

Provenienz
Sammlung August Sander; Sigrid Sander Biow; Gerd Sander; Privatsammlung Köln

Ausstellungen
Köln 1931 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Ausstellung Kölner Künstler; Köln 1932 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Sammelausstellung; Köln/Kiel 2000 (Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle/Kunsthalle zu Kiel), Zeitgenossen: August Sander und die Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland, Kat. Nr. 387 mit Farbabb. S. 18; Köln 2008 (Museum Ludwig), Köln Progressiv 1920-1933. Seiwert-Hoerle-Arntz, S. 33 mit Farbabb.

Die Kölner Dada-Bewegung hinter sich lassend, wenden sich die Künstlerfreunde Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert und Anton Räderscheidt zunehmend sozialen Inhalten und einer einfachen Bildsprache zu – Kunst steht im Dienst sozialkritischer Inhalte und soll allen verständlich sein, so die „Kölner Progressiven“.
Ende 1919 schreibt Seiwert: „Wir wollen jenseits von aller schwatzhaften Geistigkeit einfache Arbeit tun (…) Wir gebrauchen das Bild, um die Tatsachen außen im Bild Tatsache werden zu lassen: Profitmaschinen, Arbeitssklaven, Ausbeuter, Ausgebeutete. Unsere Bilder stehen im Dienste der Ausgebeuteten, zu denen wir gehören und mit denen wir uns solidarisch fühlen, deshalb lehnen wir die zur Ergötzung des Bürgers vollführte, angeblich antibürgerliche, dadaistische Harlekinade ab, weil wir nicht den Bankrott des Bürgertums, sondern den Schaffenswillen der Masse sichtbar zu machen haben.“ (zit. nach: Ausst. Kat. Heinrich Hoerle, Leben und Werk, Köln 1981, S. 30).
Der Maler als Arbeiter: Das Gemälde „Arbeiter“ ist ein Selbstporträt, ein Statement, welches Heinrich Hoerle in den frühen 1930er Jahren in seinen Gemälden und Zeichnungen variiert. Wie der französische Maler Fernand Léger zuvor zu einem mechanistischen Bildvokabular während seiner kriegsbedingten Kameradschaft mit Bergleuten, Holzfällern und Metallarbeitern kommt, findet auch Hoerle in der Auseinandersetzung mit sozialen Themen zu seiner auf das Wesentliche reduzierten Bildsprache (vgl. Ausst. Kat. Köln 1981, op.cit., S. 38 f.).
Formatfüllend ist die männliche Figur frontal gegeben und hat den Blick auf den Betrachter gerichtet, die kleine weibliche Figur ist hingegen in der Rückenansicht dem Betrachter abgewandt. Ebenso antithetisch verhalten sich die Bäume zu den rauchenden Schornsteinen, formelhaft im Bildhintergrund zu sehen. Die Antithesen von Maschine – Natur, Fabrik – Künstler, Frau – Mann, Verso – Recto, Hell – Dunkel lösen sich auf in der Figur, die Fabrikarbeit und Kunst im eigenen Porträt versöhnt.
Raffiniert sind die einzelnen Bildelemente in haptischem Auftrag monochrom in Primär- und Komplementärfarben zueinander gesetzt und loten das Raumkontinuum ebenso aus wie die differenzierten Größenverhältnisse von Bildpersonal und Staffage. Körperliche Plastizität ist zudem durch den Wechsel von Hell und Dunkel evoziert. Einzelne Elemente sind mithin wie Maschinenteile zueinander gefügt, um den bildimmanenten Ablauf zu gewährleisten.
Das marktfrische Gemälde „Arbeiter“ ist eines der letzten Ölgemälde Hoerles, da sich der Maler ab 1932 der Wachsstifttechnik auf Papier zuwendet. Das ähnliche, ebenfalls 1931 entstandene, Werk "Arbeiter (Selbstbildnis vor Bäumen und Schornsteinen)" befindet sich heute in der Sammlung des Busch- Reisinger Museums der Harvard University (vgl. Backes 83). Man darf unser großformatiges, prominentes Gemälde von musealer Qualität zu den wichtigsten in Heinrich Hoerles Schaffen zählen.
Heinrich Hoerle, Arbeiter
Oil on canvas. 81 x 66.5 cm. Framed. Monogrammed 'h' within depiction to upper right margin. Verso signed, dated and titled 'hoerle 1931/3 arbeiter'.

The work will be included in the new Cat. Rais. Backes/Hanstein; Backes 85 (titled "Der Arbeiter")

Provenance
Collection August Sander; Sigrid Sander Biow; Gerd Sander; Private collection, Cologne

Exhibitions
Cologne 1931 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Ausstellung Kölner Künstler; Cologne 1932 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Sammelausstellung; Köln/Kiel 2000 (Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle/Kunsthalle zu Kiel), Zeitgenossen: August Sander und die Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland, cat. no. 387, colour ill. p. 18; Cologne 2008 (Museum Ludwig), Köln Progressiv 1920-1933. Seiwert-Hoerle-Arntz, colour ill. p. 33

Leaving Cologne’s Dada movement behind them, the friends and fellow artists Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Anton Räderscheidt increasingly turned to social content and a simple visual idiom – according to the “Cologne Progressives”, art was to be created in the service of social criticism and it was to be comprehensible to everyone.
At the end of 1919 Seiwert wrote: “We want to do simple work beyond any chattery spirituality […] We use the picture to allow the facts out there become a fact in the picture: profit machines, labour slaves, exploiters and the exploited. Our pictures serve the exploited, of whom we are a part and with whom we feel solidarity; therefore, we reject the supposedly anti-bourgeois, Dadaist harlequinade performed to the delight of the bourgeoisie, because it is not the bankruptcy of the bourgeoisie but the creative will of the masses that we must render visible” (cited in: exh. cat. Heinrich Hoerle, Leben und Werk, Köln 1981, p. 30).
The painter as worker: the painting “Arbeiter” is a self-portrait, a statement on which Heinrich Hoerle created variations in his painting and drawings of the early 1930s. Like the French painter Fernand Léger, who had previously arrived at a mechanistic visual vocabulary during his comradeship with miners, lumberjacks and metalworkers due to the war, it was also Hoerle’s engagement with social themes that led him to his visual idiom reduced to the essential (see exh. cat. Köln 1981, op. cit., pp. 38 f.).
The male figure is depicted frontally and fills the canvas, with his gaze directed at the viewers; the small female figure, on the other hand, is seen from behind and is turned away from the viewers. The relationship between the trees and the smoking chimneys depicted formulaically in the background is no less antithetical. The antitheses of machine – nature, factory – artist, woman – man, verso – recto and light – dark become resolved in the figure, who reconciles factory labour and art in his own portrait.
Relationships between the individual elements of the picture have been ingeniously established through monochrome primary and complementary colours applied in a haptic manner. Just like the differentiated proportions of the picture’s figures and objects, these plumb the spatial continuum. Three-dimensional form is additionally evoked through the alternation of light and dark. The individual elements accordingly fit together like machine parts to guarantee the functioning of the immanent process at work within the picture.
The market-fresh painting “Arbeiter” is among Hoerle’s last oil paintings, because the painter turned to the technique of wax crayon on paper from 1932. A similar work “Arbeiter (Selbstbildnis vor Bäumen und Schornsteinen)”, which was also created in 1931, is now in the collection of Harvard University’s Busch-Reisinger Museum (see Backes 83). Our large-format, prominent painting in museum quality can be counted among the most important in Heinrich Hoerle’s oeuvre.
Heinrich Hoerle, Arbeiter
Öl auf Leinwand. 81 x 66,5 cm. Gerahmt. In der Darstellung am rechten Rand oben monogrammiert 'h'. Rückseitig signiert, datiert und betitelt 'hoerle 1931/3 arbeiter'.

Die Arbeit wird in das neue Werkverzeichnis Backes/Hanstein aufgenommen; Backes 85 (dort betitelt: "Der Arbeiter")

Provenienz
Sammlung August Sander; Sigrid Sander Biow; Gerd Sander; Privatsammlung Köln

Ausstellungen
Köln 1931 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Ausstellung Kölner Künstler; Köln 1932 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Sammelausstellung; Köln/Kiel 2000 (Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle/Kunsthalle zu Kiel), Zeitgenossen: August Sander und die Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland, Kat. Nr. 387 mit Farbabb. S. 18; Köln 2008 (Museum Ludwig), Köln Progressiv 1920-1933. Seiwert-Hoerle-Arntz, S. 33 mit Farbabb.

Die Kölner Dada-Bewegung hinter sich lassend, wenden sich die Künstlerfreunde Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert und Anton Räderscheidt zunehmend sozialen Inhalten und einer einfachen Bildsprache zu – Kunst steht im Dienst sozialkritischer Inhalte und soll allen verständlich sein, so die „Kölner Progressiven“.
Ende 1919 schreibt Seiwert: „Wir wollen jenseits von aller schwatzhaften Geistigkeit einfache Arbeit tun (…) Wir gebrauchen das Bild, um die Tatsachen außen im Bild Tatsache werden zu lassen: Profitmaschinen, Arbeitssklaven, Ausbeuter, Ausgebeutete. Unsere Bilder stehen im Dienste der Ausgebeuteten, zu denen wir gehören und mit denen wir uns solidarisch fühlen, deshalb lehnen wir die zur Ergötzung des Bürgers vollführte, angeblich antibürgerliche, dadaistische Harlekinade ab, weil wir nicht den Bankrott des Bürgertums, sondern den Schaffenswillen der Masse sichtbar zu machen haben.“ (zit. nach: Ausst. Kat. Heinrich Hoerle, Leben und Werk, Köln 1981, S. 30).
Der Maler als Arbeiter: Das Gemälde „Arbeiter“ ist ein Selbstporträt, ein Statement, welches Heinrich Hoerle in den frühen 1930er Jahren in seinen Gemälden und Zeichnungen variiert. Wie der französische Maler Fernand Léger zuvor zu einem mechanistischen Bildvokabular während seiner kriegsbedingten Kameradschaft mit Bergleuten, Holzfällern und Metallarbeitern kommt, findet auch Hoerle in der Auseinandersetzung mit sozialen Themen zu seiner auf das Wesentliche reduzierten Bildsprache (vgl. Ausst. Kat. Köln 1981, op.cit., S. 38 f.).
Formatfüllend ist die männliche Figur frontal gegeben und hat den Blick auf den Betrachter gerichtet, die kleine weibliche Figur ist hingegen in der Rückenansicht dem Betrachter abgewandt. Ebenso antithetisch verhalten sich die Bäume zu den rauchenden Schornsteinen, formelhaft im Bildhintergrund zu sehen. Die Antithesen von Maschine – Natur, Fabrik – Künstler, Frau – Mann, Verso – Recto, Hell – Dunkel lösen sich auf in der Figur, die Fabrikarbeit und Kunst im eigenen Porträt versöhnt.
Raffiniert sind die einzelnen Bildelemente in haptischem Auftrag monochrom in Primär- und Komplementärfarben zueinander gesetzt und loten das Raumkontinuum ebenso aus wie die differenzierten Größenverhältnisse von Bildpersonal und Staffage. Körperliche Plastizität ist zudem durch den Wechsel von Hell und Dunkel evoziert. Einzelne Elemente sind mithin wie Maschinenteile zueinander gefügt, um den bildimmanenten Ablauf zu gewährleisten.
Das marktfrische Gemälde „Arbeiter“ ist eines der letzten Ölgemälde Hoerles, da sich der Maler ab 1932 der Wachsstifttechnik auf Papier zuwendet. Das ähnliche, ebenfalls 1931 entstandene, Werk "Arbeiter (Selbstbildnis vor Bäumen und Schornsteinen)" befindet sich heute in der Sammlung des Busch- Reisinger Museums der Harvard University (vgl. Backes 83). Man darf unser großformatiges, prominentes Gemälde von musealer Qualität zu den wichtigsten in Heinrich Hoerles Schaffen zählen.

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