ERWIN VOLLMER (Berlin 1884 - 1973 Rehlingen), Sailers in the Morning

ERWIN VOLLMER*
(Berlin 1884 - 1973 Rehlingen)
Sailers in the Morning
oil/canvas, 59,7 x 55 cm
signed Erwin Vollmer
verso inscribed Rehling b. Lueneburg "Segel im Morgen"
Provenance: Historia auction house Berlin 2018, Fine Arts Widder Vienna

ESTIMATE °€ 2.000 - 3.000
START € 1.500

German painter and sculptor of the 20th century. Came from a family of artists, his grandfather was the landscape and marine painter Adolph Friedrich Vollmer, his father Johannes Vollmer was an architect. The brother editor of art encyclopedias Vollmer and Thieme-Becker. Studied at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste in Charlottenburg under the landscape painter Paul Vorgang. 1904 to 1908 studied at the Weimar School of Art with Ludwig von Hofmann, Theodor Hagen, Sascha Schneider and Hans Olde. Acquaintance with Willy Preetorius, Otto Illies, Rudolf Siegmund and Ivo Hauptmann. Lived and worked in Rehlingen in the Lüneburg Heath. Created mainly landscapes at different seasons and times of day, people at work. Early influences of Impressionism and Pointilism, in the 1920s towards Expressionism and painting out of color.

Erwin Vollmer comes from a northern German family of artists. His grandfather was the Hamburg landscape and marine painter Adolph Friedrich Vollmer, his father Johannes Vollmer was an architect and his brother the art historian and editor of the encyclopedias Vollmer and Thieme-Becker. Vollmer studied at the College of Fine Arts in Charlottenburg with the Berlin landscape painter Paul Prozess. From 1904 to 1908 he studied at the art school in Weimar with Ludwig von Hofmann, Theodor Hagen, Sascha Schneider and Hans Olde. Vollmer found a landscape related to his nature in the barren Lüneburg Heath, where he settled in the village of Rehlingen. Vollmer mainly painted landscapes, especially lonely heath landscapes in late autumn and winter, but also people at work. A theme that kept occupying his attention was the human form as the embodiment of spiritual feeling. After attempts at pointillism and impressionism, Vollmer found his own expressionistic style in the 1920s, which always started with colour. A basic religious mood is not just limited to these pictures, which are directly related to the topic: a “dreamlike sense of infinity” runs through Vollmer's entire figurative and landscape work.

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