Oil on cardboard.
Grasse S. 159. Lower right monogrammed. Titled on a label on the reverse. 90.3 x 73.8 cm. . [CH].
- Large-format, impressive frontal depiction. - Religious themes can be found throughout Werner Scholz's entire oeuvre. - Fateful years around 1940: in 1937, some of the artist's works were shown in the "Degenerate Art" exhibition and Scholz was banned from exhibiting; in 1944, his studio and many works were destroyed in an air raid.
LITERATURE: Claudia Grasse (ed.), Werner Scholz 1898-1982. Werkkatalog zum 100. Geburtstag, Alpbach 1998, p. 159 (not illustrated).