STERL; ROBERT HERMANN
1867 Grossdobritz - 1932 Naundorf

Burden Bearer Carrying Balls onto a Ship. 1912. Oil on card. Laid down on playwood. 23 x 30;5cm. Inscribed lower left: R St. Again labelled bottom right: R St (in the estate). Framed.

Verso:
Labels and numbers; among others estate no. A102.

Literature:
- Mentioned and illustrated in: Popova; Kristina: Robert Sterl; cat.rais. of the paintings and oil scetches; Dresden 2011; no. 901;
- Mentioned and illustrated in: Zimmermann; Horst: Robert Sterl; cat.rais. of the paintings and oil scetches; Rostock 1976; no. 672.

Provenance:
- 2001 from the company Madaus;
- 1973 Werner Gatzsch; Cologne;
- from the estate of Robert Sterl.

Exhibitions:
- 1991 Cologne; cat.no. 31 (Lastentr鋑er in einem Wolgahafen);
- 1997 Dresden; w/o cat.no. (Lastentr鋑er in einem Wolgahafen);
- 2002 Cologne; cat.no. 99 (Lastentr鋑er beim Beladen eines Schiffes);
- 2007 Frankfurt a. M.; cat.no. 62 (Lastentr鋑er beim Beladen eines Schiffes);
- 2010/11 Heidelberg; cat.no. 140 (Lastentr鋑er beim Beladen eines Schiffes).

Parallels to the stone-breakers; who had to do heavy work; Sterl found in the Russian burden bearers along the Volga.
Art trade; Van Ham.