Blumenstilleben auf Schwarzem Grund II. 1913.
Oil on canvas.
60 x 49 cm (23.6 x 19.2 in).
[SM].
• The painting is characterized by its bold composition, in which the quality of the flowers contrasts with the quantity of the three diagonally arranged areas of color
• Stenner creates a floral still life that is consistently designed for the expression of color and its effect
• The flower still life as a carrier and mediator of the colors for the development of the effect on the viewer is concretely emphasized by the non-color black of the background.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Dr. Hans and Lily Hildebrandt, Stuttgart.
Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt, Berlin.
Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau (on the stretcher with the label).
Rolf Deyhle Collection, Stuttgart.
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Hamburg/Bielefeld.

EXHIBITION: Hölzel und sein Kreis, Kunstverein Freiburg, September 1 - 30, 1916, cat. no. 8, fig. 32.
Hölzel und sein Kreis, Galerie Schames, Frankfurt a. Main, January 1917, cat. no. 41.
Hermann Stenner 1891-1914, Städtisches Kunsthaus, Bielefeld, September 9 - October 14, 1956, cat. no. 180, fig. p. 40 (label on the reverse); in the following at Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart.
Hölzel und sein Kreis. Der Beitrag Stuttgarts zur Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, September 8 - November 5, 1961, cat. no. 399, p. 252.
Hermann Stenner 1891-1914, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Schloss Dätzingen, November 27, 1988 - January 14, 1989, cat. no. 18, on cover.
Hermann Stenner 1891-1914, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, June 2 - August 25, 1991; Städtische Galerie, Albstadt, September 8 - October 27, 1991; Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, November 8 - December 29, 1991, cat. no. 28.
Die Sammlung Rolf Deyhle. Figur und Abstraktion in der deutschen Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, February 27 - June 13, 1993; Landesmuseum Mainz, November 7, 1993 - January 30, 1994; Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle/Saale, February 20 - April 10, 1994; Schloss Cappenberg, April 28 - August 7, 1994; Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Decmeber 1, 1994 - February 28, 1995, cat. no. 16.
Stillleben südwestdeutscher Künstler 1900-1950, Kunststiftung Hohenkarpfen, July 7 - November 24, 2002, cat. no. 29, fihg. no. 43, p. 59.
Hermann Stenner. Gemälde. Retrospektive 1909-1914, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, June 1 - August 31, 2003; Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Jesuitenkirche, September 27 - Novembe 16, 2003.
Der Westfälische Expressionismus, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, October 31, 2010 - February 20, 2011, p. 202.
Das Glück in der Kunst. Expressionismus und Abstraktion um 1914. Bunte Collection, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, March 21 - August 3, 2014, p. 168.
Im Laboratorium der Moderne. Hölzel und sein Kreis, Augustinermuseum Freiburg i. Br., November 25, 2017 - March 18, 2018, cat. no. 130, p. 217.
Hermann Stenner und seine Zeit, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, January 20 - August 18, 2019, cat. no. 175, p. 100.
Hermann Stenner und seine Lehrer. Werke aus der Sammlung Bunte, Museum Haus Opherdicke, Kreis Unna, September 5, 2021 - February 27, 2022, p. 119.

LITERATURE: Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen/Christiane Reipschläger, Hermann Stenner. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, ed. by Freundeskreis Hermann Stenner e. V., Bielefeld 2003, no. 137.

Gustav Vriesen, Der Maler Hermann Stenner, in: Westfalen, vol. 35, 1957, issue 3, p. 160, fig. 90.
Hans Georg Gmelin, Hermann Stenner 1891-1914, Munich 1975, pp. 51f., fig. 11.