Schnitter. 1923.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. Signed, dated and inscribed "Bielefeld" on the reverse, as well astitled and inscribed "No II WIDEH." and with the work number "88".
With an illegible inscription on the stretcher. 73 x 88 cm (28.7 x 34.6 in). [EH].

• Expressive colorfulness developed from complementary contrasts.
• In 1909, Sagewka. Peter August Böckstiegel and Victor Tuxhorn founded the artist group "Rote Erde".
• Sagewka was ostracized as "degenerate" by the Nazi regime as of 1937.
• Many of his works were destroyed in an air raid in 1944.

PROVENANCE: Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Hamburg/Bielefeld.

EXHIBITION: Verlorene Nähe. Bilder vom Menschen in der Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sammlung Bunte, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottdorf, Schleswig, December 1, 2001 - January 20, 2002; Städtische Galerie in der Reithalle, Schloss Neuhaus, Paderborn, February 1 - March 13, 2002; Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, March 22 - June 15, 2002, cat. no. 95 (illu. on p. 41.
Im Westen viel Neues. Facetten des Rheinisch-Westfälischen Expressionismus, Sauerland-Museum, Arnsberg, September 19, 2021 - January 23, 2022, p. 47 (illu. on p. 63).

LITERATURE: Rolf Sagewka, Ernst Sagewka, Berlin 2014, no. 091G, illu. in color on p. 46.