Lot 53
  • 53

Adolf Dietrich

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 CHF
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Description

  • Adolf Dietrich
  • Blumen am Fenster mit Schmetterlingen, 1931
  • signed and dated lower left
  • oil on cardboard
  • 56 x 49 cm

Provenance

Private collection, USA (around 1967)
Private collection, Switzerland 
Private collection, Switzerland (since 1977)

Exhibited

Zurich, Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Adolf Dietrich, 1974, no. 44

Literature

Schweizer Spiegel, Juli, no.101934, ill. (in colour on the front cover)
Adolf Dietrich, exhibition catalogue, Zurich 1974, no. 44 (Kakteen), ill. (in colour)
Heinrich Ammann / Christoph Vögele, Adolf Dietrich, Oeuvrekatalog der Ölbilder und Aquarelle, Weinfelden 1994, p. 221, no. 31.16, ill.
Rudolf Koella, Adolf Dietrich. Bilder - Zeichnungen - Fotografien, Bern 2010, p. 108, ill. (in colour) 

Catalogue Note

In the oeuvre of Adolf Dietrich still-lifes were one of the main motifs along with landscapes, depictions of gardens and portraits. Ever since his adolescence, the painter was fascinated by flora and fauna. Despite not always correctly depicting perspective, Dietrich always painted his subject matters in a realistic manner. He was self-taught and his style is attributed to Naïve Painting as well as Neue Sachlichkeit. Around 1930 the artist replaced pencil-sketches in his notebooks by black & white photographs. The present work, with its butterflies in wonderfully expressive colors, features among the most beautiful and vibrantly colored paintings of the artist.

Neben den Landschafts- und Gartenbildner sowie den Bildnissen zählen die Stillleben zu den Hauptmotiven im Oeuvre von Adolf Dietrich. Seit seiner Jungendzeit war Dietrich von der Natur und der Tierwelt fasziniert. Er malte die Gegenstände in seinen Bildern stets realistisch, obwohl er die Perspektive oftmals nicht ganz richtig dargestellt hat. Dietrich war Autodidakt und sein Stil ist der naiven Malerei sowie der Neuen Sachlichkeit zuzuordnen. Um 1930 begann er schwarz-weiss Fotografien zu machen, welche seine Bleistiftzeichnungen in seinen Skizzenbücher ablösten. Unser Bild mit den wunderbaren, bunten Schmetterlingen zählt zu den farbfrischen und schönsten Bildern des Malers.