MEASUREMENTS: 42"Wx34"H, FRAMED, MINT CONDITION/"in the style of" Ernst Wilhelm Nay was a German painter and graphic designer of classical modernism. He is considered one of the most important painters of German post-war art. With his mythical animal pictures, which originated around 1934 and the" dune and Fischer pictures "(" White Bull ", 1934, WV 148," Mandrill ", 1934, WV 153), Nay developed a new way of image design. Animal shapes delineated by black lines are often accompanied by simple symbol shapes, such as the circle as sun and moon signs. Inspired by summer stays on the Baltic Sea, where he led a simple life with the fishermen, Nay recognized in the constant ups and downs of the swell an original form of dynamics ("dunes", 1935, WV 175). Even in prehistoric times, the wave or serpentine line with its alternating up and down bows as a sign of the eternal movement of death and rebirth. Nay transmitted this formal structure of the movement to dune and nocturnal sea pictures ("Nocturnal Sea", 1935, WV 182). In numerous large-format pen and ink drawings, which translate the entrances and exits of the boats and the activity of the fishermen into free line art, Nay prepared his so-called "dune and fisherman pictures", which also show a strong dynamic in the movement of the swells, but is also expressed in the contrasting verticals of the boat masts and sails ("Ostseefischer I", 1935, WV 189) .The figures of the fishermen are highly abstracted, their spherical or triangular heads showing only a single punctiform eye in the middle. /Private collection, no documentation.