STERL; ROBERT HERMANN
1867 Grossdobritz - 1932 Naundorf

View of a Quarry. Oil on card. Mounted. 23 x 29;5cm. Signed lower right: Rob Sterl. Framed.

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Literature:
Listed and illustrated in: Popova; Kristina: Robert Sterl. Werkverzeichnis der Gem鋖de und 謑skizzen; Dresden 2011; no. 749
Listed and illustrated in: Zimmermann; Horst: Der Maler Robert Sterl. Leben und Werk in Briefen und Selbstzeugnissen; Dresden 2011; no. 650.

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

Exhibitions:
1991 Cologne; cat.-no. 25 (Im Steinbruch)
2002 Cologne; cat.-no. 74 (Bl鯿ke in einem Steinbruch); ill.
2010/11 Heidelberg; cat.-no. 112 (Bl鯿ke in einem Steinbruch); ill.

In his on-site sketches Sterl closely observed the labour routine in the quarry and thus created a basis for the paintings he subsequently very elaborately composed in his studio.
Art trade; Van Ham.