Head of a Lady
Ewald Platte (Untergarschagen 1894 - Opladen 1985)
Lot-No. 318
Tempera and mixed media/cardboard, 54 x 19 cm, lo. le. sign. Ew. Platte, min. pigment losses. - Expressionist painter of the 'Lost Generation', trained at the Wuppertal school of applied arts under L. Fahrenkroog, became member of the progressive artist's association 'Die Wupper' in 1920, exhibited in Cologne, Wiesbaden, Düsseldorf a. Hamburg, was promoted by the agent G. Scheyer, who exhibited works of the artist in the USA at the exhibition of 'European Modernists', together with artworks by Jawlensky, Feininger, Kirchner, Nolde a. Picasso, most of his oeuvre was destroyed in WW II, after the war he turned to sculpture. Mus.: Wuppertal (Von der Heydt-Museum), Pasadena. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, exh. cat. E. P., Wuppertal 1994, exh. cat. E.P. - Zwischen Expressionismus u. Abstraktion, Remscheid 2005 a. others.
Ewald Platte: Head of a Lady
Ewald Platte (Untergarschagen 1894 - Opladen 1985)
Head of a Lady
Lot-No. 318
Tempera and mixed media/cardboard, 54 x 19 cm, lo. le. sign. Ew. Platte, min. pigment losses. - Expressionist painter of the 'Lost Generation', trained at the Wuppertal school of applied arts under L. Fahrenkroog, became member of the progressive artist's association 'Die Wupper' in 1920, exhibited in Cologne, Wiesbaden, Düsseldorf a. Hamburg, was promoted by the agent G. Scheyer, who exhibited works of the artist in the USA at the exhibition of 'European Modernists', together with artworks by Jawlensky, Feininger, Kirchner, Nolde a. Picasso, most of his oeuvre was destroyed in WW II, after the war he turned to sculpture. Mus.: Wuppertal (Von der Heydt-Museum), Pasadena. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, exh. cat. E. P., Wuppertal 1994, exh. cat. E.P. - Zwischen Expressionismus u. Abstraktion, Remscheid 2005 a. others.
