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Wilhelm Lachnit (1899-1962), Oil Painting, Male
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Germany, c. 1950
Wilhelm Lachnit (1899-1962) – German painter, graphic artist and professor, mainly active in Dresden
Signed lower right ‘Lachnit’
Plywood board: 90 x 60 cm
Good condition
Provenance: Private Collection, Germany
Wilhelm Lachnit belonged to the founders of New Objectivity in Dresden; the auction record for a painting of the artist is currently set above €17,000
This oil painting was created by Wilhelm Lachnit, who belonged to the founders of New Objectivity in Dresden. Depicted is the portrait of an unknown man dressed in a brown suit with wide collar, seated in an armchair. Lachnit’s art was villainized by the Nazis as ‘degenerate’, and he then later was appointed a professor of painting in Dresden. But also in the GDR he wasn’t accepted and resigned from his professorship voluntarily.
The painting is signed lower right ‘Lachnit’. The painting layer shows three touch-ups in the area of the fingers of the right hand. A small triple-radial craquelé is in the right area in the background, the painting layer is slightly brittle there. Framing marks are visible. The frame shows color chips. The plywood board measures 90 x 60 cm and the total dimensions, including the frame, are 107,3 x 77,4 cm.
Wilhelm Lachnit (1899-1962)
Wilhelm Lachnit began his artistic education 1914/18 with training as a sign writer. He became a pupil of the Dresden Academy on 1920/23, where he met Otto Dix whose art had a substantial impact on his work. Lachnit’s main body of work encompasses figural depictions and portraits, which were acquired e.g. by the Moscow Collections and the Gemäldegalerie Dresden. In 1924, he joined the Communist Party of Germany and established the ‘Neue Gruppe’together with Hans Grundig, Otto Griebel and Fritz Skade. He was a co-founder of the ‘Assoziation revolutionärer bildender Künstler’ in 1929, of the Dresden group ‘Aktion’ in 1930 and member of the ‘Neue Dresden Sezession 1932’. Part of his work was classified as ‘degenerate art’ seized in 1933. The artist himself was arrested and could afterwards continue his work only limited. He was appointed a professor of painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden in 1947. (tm)
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