Dampfer, Zwischenraum und Segelschiff. 1948.
Oil on canvas, laminated on panel.
Signed lower left. Numbered "Z 396" and with two artist stamps on the reverse. 32 x 39 cm (12.5 x 15.3 in).
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• Radziwill's inimitable visual language makes him one of Germany's most important representatives of Magical Realism.
• In his fascinating pictorial worlds, he combines surreal and mysterious elements.
• Ships and ports as ambiguous metaphors for life are an essential motif in the work of Radziwill, who lived in Dangast on the North Sea since 1923.
• Works by this exceptional artist can be found in renowned collections, among them the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich.

PROVENANCE: Sabarth Collection, Norden.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Private collection, Lower Saxony.

LITERATURE: Andrea Firmenich, Rainer W. Schulze, Franz Radziwill 1895 bis 1983. Monograph and catalogue raisonné, Cologne 1995, cat. no. 600 (illustrated in b/w).
The artist's handwritten list of works, list 4, no. 396 (unpublished).