Stillleben. Around 1922.
Oil on canvas.
Signed bottom right. 91 x 100.5 cm (35.8 x 39.5 in). [CH].


• Magnificent, large-format still life in Böckstiegel's characteristic, vibrant and luminous colors.
• Light and color as expressive means of pictorial design are decisive for his entire oeuvre.
• From 1919-1920 Böckstiegel was a member of the artists' group “Dresdner Sezession Gruppe 1919” around Conrad Felixmüller and Otto Dix, and subsequently became a member of the Dresdner Künstlervereinigung and the Deutscher Künstlerbund.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Baden-Württemberg (presumably directly from the artist).
Family-owned ever since.

EXHIBITION: Peter August Böckstiegel, Schloss Ettlingen, December 10, 1978 - January 18, 1979, cat. no. 21.
Kunst in Bielefeld, Malerei und Graphik 1900-1933, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, July 24 - October 9, 1983, cat. no. 8.
Peter August Böckstiegel. Menschen und Landschaften, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, October 19, 1997 - January 4, 1998, p. 229 (full-page color illu. on plate 47).

LITERATURE: David Riedel, Peter August Böckstiegel: Die Gemälde 1910-1951, Munich 2014, no. 119 ( illustrated on p. 127).
Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen/Vita von Wedel (ed.), Peter August Böckstiegel. Menschen und Landschaften. Monografie und Werkverzeichnis, Cologne 1997, p. 229, no. 105 ( illustrated in color, p. 137, plate 47).