JOSEF EBERZ (Limburg an der Lahn 1880 - 1941 Munich), Coast near Ragusa, 1923

JOSEF EBERZ
(Limburg an der Lahn 1880 - 1941 Munich)
Coast near Ragusa, 1923
oil/cardboard, 34 x 42,5 cm
signed J Eberz and dated 23
verso inscribed J. Eberz Küste von Ragusa 1923, exhibition label Gallery New Art Hans Goltz Munich, Nr P.459
exhibited 1923 at the Gallery New Art Hans Goltz in Munich
depicted in Expressiver Realismus in Deutschland, Vienna 2017, p. 12, Nr. 17
Provenance: auction house Neumeister Munich 2010, Fine Arts Widder Vienna

ESTIMATE °€ 4.000 - 8.000
START € 4.000

German painter, graphic artist and illustrator of the 20th century. Studied at the Academy in Munich from 1901 to 1903 under Franz von Stuck and Hugo von Habermann. Then in Karlsruhe and from 1907 to 1912 master student of the color theorist Adolf Hölzel in Stuttgart. Member of the Hölzel circle, along with Gertrud Alber, Willi Baumeister, Paul Bollmann, Hans Brühlmann, Heinrich Eberhard, Maria Hiller-Foell, Ida Kerkovius, Otto Meyer-Amden, Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini, Oskar Schlemmer, August Ludwig Schmidt, Hermann Stenner and Alfred Wickenburg. Married the artist Gertrud Alber in Wiesbaden in 1917. From 1918 in Munich, represented by the art dealer Hanns Goltz. Member of the New Munich Secession, 1919 of the association Das junge Rheinland, 1919 also of the Darmstadt Secession and the Novembergruppe. In the 1920s travels to Italy, Dalmatia and Paris. His works were classified as degenerate art by the Nazis. Stylistically to be assigned to Expressionism, especially influences of Cubism, Futurism and later Pittura Metafisica. Stylistic proximity to the German Expressionists Conrad Felixmüller, Alexander Kanoldt or Emil Nolde. Created expressionist and color-intensive landscapes and figure paintings, strong interest in religious themes.

Born in Limburg an der Lahn in 1880 as the son of a postal clerk, the painter and graphic artist Josef Eberz studied around the turn of the century in Munich, first under Professors Peter Halm and Franz von Stuck, and then in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe (both in 1904). He was first challenged at the Stuttgart Academy, where Eberz was enrolled from 1905 as a student of Christian Landenberger, a positive plein-air painter. For Eberz, this professor was probably the real reason for choosing Stuttgart as a training center. But it was only in Adolf Hölzel, the painter of clay nature and genre paintings, that Eberz finally found the artistic figure that formed him. Hölzel, like Eberz, had come to the Stuttgart Art Academy in 1905 and quickly made a name for himself as a painter who was active in art theory and had his own color theory and color circle. As early as 1907 we find Eberz as a master student in Adolf Hölzel's class, in which he studied until 1912. From his teacher, to whom Eberz felt a strong obligation in terms of composition and color in his early pictures, this master student should above all acquire the ability to construct the picture more constructively and to handle color confidently, detached from the real object.
How much Josef Eberz’s painting style changed under the influence of his trips to the south at the beginning shows the coastal landscape near Ragusa, dated 1923. His travels took him to Italy in 1920 and to Dalmatia and Paris in the following years. Under his brush, Ragusa becomes a built landscape with a quay wall and a stylized city silhouette. With great passion for color, he also designed the surface of the sea and the interaction with the slightly cloudy sky.

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