Stillleben mit Mohnblumen. 1933.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower left. 100.5 x 90.5 cm (39.5 x 35.6 in).
[KT].
• Large-format staging of the many shades of the color red in the delicate poppy blossoms.
• Böckstiegel's work attained a new sense of harmony in the 1930s.
• The ardent admirer of Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the most important representatives of Westphalian Expressionism.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Bavaria (acquired in 1936, family-owned ever since).

EXHIBITION: Kunstausstellung Dresden, Sächsischer Kunstverein/Städtische Kunsthalle, Dresden, May 1936, cat no. 29: "Türkischer Mohn".

LITERATURE: David Riedel, Peter August Böckstiegel: Die Gemälde 1910-1951, Munich 2014, catalogue raisonné no. 281 (illustrated).