STERL; ROBERT HERMANN
1867 Grossdobritz - 1932 Naundorf

Shepherd by a Fire near Holzburg. Ca. 1894. Oil on canvas. Mounted. 21;5 x 32cm. Framed.

Literature:
Appears in and illustrated in: Posse; Hans: Robert Sterl. Neue Kunst in Sachsen; Dresden
1929; ill. p. 66 (Sch鋐er am Feuer)

Provenance:
2001 from Madaus enterprise; Cologne
1973 Werner Gatzsch; Cologne
From the estate of Robert Sterl

Exhibitions:
1894 Dresden; cat.-no. 445 (Sch鋐er am Feuer)
1991 Cologne; cat.-no. 7 (Sch鋐er am Feuer)
2002 Cologne; cat.-no. 26
2010/11 Heidelberg; cat.-no. 90; ill.

Drawings: Robert-Sterl-Haus Naundorf; Z 1554; later India ink drawing as a template for illustrations in the P. A. B鯿kstiegel-Haus Arrode from 1897 (ill. Becker 1952; no. 34)

Note: study corresponds to cat.rais. Popova 180; during the winter of 1893/94 Sterl stayed in the Hessian Holzburg where he depicted the regional peasants and shepherds in his sketches and paintings.
Art trade; Van Ham.