Werner Heldt

Werner Heldt 1904 - 1954 Stillleben mit weißem Kreis. 1952. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed and dated in the lower right. 55 x 65.5 cm (21.6 x 25.7 in). • From the period shortly after the end of World War II, created within Berlin’s resurgent art scene. • Werner Heldt also gives formal and innovative expression to the destroyed urban spaces of the postwar era. • The cityscape transformed into a still life. • Posthumously, works by Heldt were exhibited in the important first documenta in Kassel in 1955. • Internationally exhibited in Germany, Brazil, and Switzerland. PROVENANCE: Private collection, Bavaria. EXHIBITION: Arte Alemã desde 1945, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, (undated), cat. no. 131 (with a label on the stretcher). Werner Heldt – Gedächtnis.Ausstellunh. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Nov. 17–Dec. 15, 1954, cat. no. 43 (with ill.). Werner Heldt—Retrospektive, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1957, cat. no. 37 (with a label on the stretcher). Lübeck 1959 (Overbeck Society). Werner Heldt, Kestner Society, Hanover, 1968, cat. no. 110 (with a label on the stretcher). Werner Heldt. Malerei und Zeichnung, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 1968, cat. no. 110 (with color illustration). Werner Heldt, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Dec. 2, 1989–Feb. 11, 1990, cat. no. 29 (with color illustration). Werner Heldt / Hans Uhlmann, Zwei Retrospektiven, Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, Jan. 25–Mar. 29, 2003, cat. no. p. 30 (with color illustration). LITERATURE: Eberhardt Seel, Werner Heldt. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, in: Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, catalogue 6, CR no. 110 (with illustration). Lucius Grisebach, Der Maler Werner Heldt, in: Exhibition catalog, Nuremberg 1990, p. 76. Lucius Grisebach, Der Maler Werner Heldt, in: Ausst.-Kat. Nürnberg 1990, S. 76. Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 17.33 h +/- 20 min.

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