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ERNEST NEUSCHUL PAINTINGS

Lot 605 - ERNEST NEUSCHUL (CZECH, 1895-1968)

'Der Maler und sein Werk' - The Artist and his Creation

ERNEST NEUSCHUL PAINTINGS

THURSDAY 2nd FEBRUARY 2018

AT 3.30PM

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SATURDAY 27th JANUARY 9.00am – 12.30pm

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Ernest Neuschul (1895-1968)

Ernest Neuschul was born of Jewish parents in 1895 in Usti nad Labem in the Czech

Republic. He studied in Prague and later Vienna, where he was attracted by the paintings of

Klimt and Egon Schiele and the expressionistic works of Oskar Kokoschka. At the outbreak of

World War I Neuschul avoided conscription, moving to Cracow, Poland in 1916.

After the war ended he moved to Berlin, joining the Academy of Arts where he won the Rome

prize for outstanding achievement. In 1919 Neuschul’s first one-man exhibition opened in

Prague. He settled in Berlin, a city he loved, embarking upon an energetically productive

period, painting under the post-war influence of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)

movement. In 1926 he joined the Novembergruppe, first founded in 1918 and a vigorous

opponent of Fascism. He also got to know Ludwig Meidner who was painting expressive and

highly emotional figurative subjects often with a religious theme.

Ernest Neuschul (left) and taka dancer

Neuschul’s work during the late 1920s took a more hard-edged and socially committed look at

day-to-day life under the Weimar Republic. Yet unlike other painters of the New Objectivity

movement, Neuschul’s socially critical art embodied his innate compassion for his fellow men

and women, irrespective of whether they were urbanised industrial workers or drawn from the

demimonde of cabarets and city nightlife.

In 1932 Neuschul became Professor of Fine Arts at Berlin’s Academy of Fine Art and was also

elected chairman of the Novembergruppe. In 1933 however, an exhibition of his paintings was

closed down by the Nazis. Because of his Jewish birth and radical political opinions Neuschul

also lost his teaching post and in March 1933 he returned to Usti nad Labem accompanied by

his wife Christl. In 1935 Neuschul was invited to exhibit and work in the Soviet Union, painting

portraits of steelworkers and revolutionary figures and even gaining a double portrait

commission of Stalin and Dimitroff. But he was warned of the machinations of Stalin and

returned to Prague. In 1937 however, several of Neuschul’s paintings on exhibition in Usti

were disfigured with swastikas, a grim foretaste of what awaited him and his family if they

remained. Neuschul, his wife and child eventually escaped the Nazis on the last train out of

Czechoslovakia, arriving in London in 1939 and settling in Wales for the duration of the war.

In 1959, a one-man exhibition was held at the Betzalel National Museum in Jerusalem and in

1966 a major retrospective exhibition in Berlin with the title ‘From the New Objectivity to the

New Non-Objectivity’. He died in London in 1968. In 1989 the Leicestershire Museum UK (who

hold a substantial collection of twentieth century German art) put up a retrospective, while in

2001 a major retrospective was held in Regensburg and Brno.

Neuschul played an important part in the history of German art between the world wars, but

the vagaries of time and fickle fortune have played a trick: the trick of being forgotten. Yet as

he commented, “The loss of fame and the expectations of others has allowed me to follow my

own path, to experiment.” The line pictures and abstracts that are represented at this auction

attest to this. His paintings, post WW2, comprise of his most original works, for while learning

from Picasso, Braque and Matisse, he has adapted their aesthetic to his own investigation of

the psyche, to understanding what makes a human tick. And note his palette, always alive with

colour that he has learnt from the impressionists, allowing their love of light to play upon even

the darkest of subjects. The truth is, Neuschul is an optimist and life affirming, yet these

qualities are perhaps less appreciated these days, when the dark and violent are perhaps

more favoured subjects for the artist to investing.

Lot 601

601 ERNEST NEUSCHUL (CZECH, 1895-1968)

'Liebende' - Lovers, 1966,

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower right, titled and dated to stretcher, paper label for Gustav Knauer

Berlin Kuntz Abteilung (art department) verso, 104.5cm x 94.5cm, in a simple studio frame.

Provenance: The family of the artist, by direct descent.

*This lot may be subject to Droit de Suite (Artists Resale Right)

£600-700 (plus 23.4% Buyer’s Premium incl. VAT)

Lot 602


Dream Lover, undated [circa 1967],

oil on canvas, unsigned, numbered 44 and with paper label 202 to stretcher, 109cm x 101cm,

framed.




Lot 603


'Gebrechliche Technik' - Fragile Technology, undated [circa 1966],

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower left, titled to stretcher, with paper label 78 to stretcher, 101cm x

127cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 604


'Akt auf einem Tisch Sitzend' - Nude Seated on a Table, 1960,

oil on furnishing linen, signed and dated 'Ernest 1955' lower left, titled to stretcher, dated '1960'

verso, labelled by Christl as 'Naked on the Table', numbered 13 to stretcher, 116.5cm x 61cm, in a

simple studio frame.




Lot 605


'Der Maler und sein Werk' - The Artist and his Creation, 1958,

oil on canvas, signed 'Ernest [19]58' lower left, titled to stretcher, numbered 98, 36 and 43 to

stretcher, 120cm x 100.5cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 606


'Figuren in der Landschaft' - Figures in a Landscape, undated [circa 1964],

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower left, titled to stretcher, numbered F6 to stretcher, 89cm x 100cm,

framed.




Lot 607


Lovers Reclining and Standing, 1964,

oil on canvas, signed 'EN 1964' lower left, numbered 6 verso, 75cm x 99cm, framed.




Lot 608


'Spanische Guitaristen' - Spanish Guitarists, undated [circa 1960],

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower left, titled to stretcher, numbered 15 (crossed out) and 35 to

stretcher, 101cm x 76cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 609


'Odalisken' - Odalisques, 1964,

oil on re-used canvas, signed 'EN' lower right, titled, dated and number 'No.118' to stretcher,

numbered F9 to stretcher, 100cm x 74.5cm, unframed.




Lot 610


'Weibliche Körper' - Female Torsos, 1963,

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower right, titled and dated to stretcher, numbered F7 to stretcher,

91cm x 60.5cm, unframed.




Lot 611


Figures Reclining and Seated, undated,

oil on canvas, unsigned, paper label 238 to stretcher, 68cm x 126.5cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 612


'Der Garten Sessel in der Schloss Halle' - Garden Chair in the Castle Lobby, undated,

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower right, titled to stretcher, numbered 24 and with paper label 149 to

stretcher, 92cm x 76cm, in a simple studio frame.

Note: A similar subject, dated 1953, appeared in the exhibition Berlin 30 Am Lützowplatz.




Lot 613


'Geordnete Chaos' - Organised Chaos, 1965,

oil on re-used canvas, signed 'EN' lower right, titled and dated to stretcher, paper label 73 to

stretcher, 99.5cm x 75cm, framed.




Lot 614


The Laws of Co-incidence, 1965,

oil on board, signed and dated 'EN [19]65' lower left, labelled by Christl, paper label 28 to





Lot 615


Girls with a Kitten, undated [circa late 1950s],

oil on canvas, unsigned, 81cm x 100cm, framed.

Note: Shown in Leicester retrospective cat no 47.




Lot 616


'Familie' - Family, 1956,

oil on furnishing linen, signed 'EN' lower right, titled and dated to stretcher, numbered 45 and F5 to





Lot 617


'Graues Haus' - Grey House, 1938,

oil on re-used furnishing linen, signed 'EN' lower right, titled and dated 1938 to stretcher,

numbered F18 and with paper label 200 to stretcher, labelled by Christl as 1953, 92cm x 61cm,

framed.

Note: Listed as 1938 in Campbell and Franks exhibition, 1976.




Lot 618


'Arbor Vitae' - The Tree of Life, 1936,

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower left, titled and dated to stretcher, inscribed 'The Tree of Live' (sic)

by Christl to stretcher, numbered 35 and with paper label 23 to stretcher, 91cm x 76cm, in a


Note: The style of this picture suggests that it may be, at least in part, later than the stated date.




Lot 619


'Akte mit Grünem Shawl' - Woman with Green Shawl, 1948,

oil on canvas, unsigned, titled to stretcher, further inscribed 'Zwei Figuren, dritte Fassung' [Two

Figures, third Version] to stretcher, dated verso, numbered 31 to stretcher, 91cm x 73.5cm, in a





Lot 620


'Two Standing Nudes', 1958,

oil on canvas, signed and dated 'Ernest 1958' lower left, titled by Christl to paper label, numbered

F6 to stretcher, 112cm x 61cm, framed.




Lot 621


'Der Brautschleier' - The Bridal Veil, 1959/1964,

oil on re-used canvas, signed 'EN' lower right, titled to stretcher, dated 1959 to stretcher, dated

1964 to reverse of canvas, numbered F80 to stretcher, 100cm x 65.5cm, in a simple studio frame.


*This lot may be subject to Droit de Suite (Artists Resale Right)]


Lot 622


Reclining Clothed Figure, undated,

oil on silk screened canvas, signed 'Ernest' lower centre, numbered F11 to stretcher, 60cm x

91cm, in a simple studio frame.

Note: Included in the exhibition Berlin 30 Am Lützowplatz, 1966, as 'Frieden' [Peace] and dated to

1945.




Lot 623


'Erste Berührung' - First Stirrings, 1963,

oil on canvas, signed and dated 'EN [19]63' lower right, titled and dated to stretcher, numbered 33

and with paper label 34 to stretcher, 60.5cm x 91cm, unframed.




Lot 624


Draped Nude, undated [circa 1954],

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower left, numbered 32 and 33 to stretcher, 81cm x 66cm, in a simple

studio frame.




Lot 625


'Doppel Portrait' - Double Portrait, 1960,

oil on canvas, signed 'EN [19]60' lower right, titled and dated to stretcher, numbered 19 to frame

and 44 to reverse of canvas, 80cm x 66cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 626


'Drei Frauen' - Three Women, undated [circa 1960?],

oil on canvas, signed 'E.Neuschul' lower right, titled to stretcher, numbered F33 and with paper

label 171 to stretcher, 63.5cm x 76.5cm, unframed.




Lot 627


Double Portrait, undated [circa 1960],

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower right, numbered 9 to stretcher and 44 to reverse of canvas, 76cm

x 63cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 628


'Melancholische Halbakt' - Melancholic Draped Nude, 1954,

oil on canvas, signed 'EN 1954' lower left, titled and dated to stretcher, numbered 29 to stretcher,

76cm x 55.5cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 629


'Umarmung' - Lovers' Embrace, 1956,

oil on canvas, unsigned, titled, dated and numbered 'No.92' to stretcher, labelled by Christl,

numbered 15, F30, 50 (crossed out) and 43 and with paper labels 9 and 210 to stretcher, 60.5cm

x 73cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 630


Pair of lovers, 1962,

oil on canvas, signed 'EN 1962' lower left, numbered 12 and with paper labels 19 & 15 to

stretcher, 55.5cm x 76cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 631


'Frau vor dem Spiegel' - Woman before her Mirror, 1957,

oil on canvas, signed 'EN [19]57' lower right, titled and dated to stretcher, numbered 28 and with

paper label 164 to stretcher, 76cm x 55.5cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 632


'Mutter und Säugling' - Mother and Child, 1954,

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower left, titled and dated to stretcher, labelled by Christl, numbered 86

and with paper labels 8 and 20 to stretcher, 76cm x 51cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 633


'Kleideranprobe' - Dress Fitting, 1946,

oil on board, signed 'EN [19]49' lower right, titled and dated verso, with paper label 181 verso,

73cm x 61cm, framed.




Lot 634


Portrait of a Seated Woman, undated [ circa early 1960s],

oil on canvas, signed 'EN' lower right, numbered 3 to stretcher, 76cm x 51cm, unframed.




Lot 635


'Mädchen im Rotem Kleid' - Girl in a Red Dress, undated [circa mid 1950s],

oil on board, signed 'EN' lower right, titled verso, numbered 23 verso, 65.5cm x 45.5cm, framed.




Lot 636


Young Woman in a Woollen Pullover, 1960,

oil on canvas, signed 'E Norland [19]60' lower right, numbered F47 to stretcher, 61cm x 51cm, in a





Lot 637


Portrait of a Girl with Dark Hair, undated [circa 1964],

oil on board, unsigned, 55cm x 42cm, framed.




Lot 638


Figures in a Street, with Hebrew inscription, undated [circa 1958],

oil on canvas, unsigned, numbered F26 to stretcher, 76cm x 61.5cm, in a simple studio frame.




Lot 639


'Mer Hascherim (Jerusalem)', 1958,

oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated 'EN Jerusalem [19]58' lower left, titled and dated to

stretcher, numbered F16 and with paper label 168 to stretcher, 65.5cm x 81cm, in a simple studio

frame.




Lot 640


'Drapierte Akte' - Draped Nudes, undated [circa 1964],

oil on furnishing linen, signed 'EN' lower right, titled to stretcher, numbered F22 to stretcher, 76cm

x 63.5cm, framed.




Lot 641


'Die singende Lautenspielerin' - Singing Lutenist, undated [circa 1964],

oil on furnishing linen, signed 'EN', titled to stretcher, numbered F41 and with paper label 193 to

stretcher, 58.5cm x 66cm, in a simple studio frame.




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LOT 633 - ERNEST NEUSCHUL (CZECH, 1895-1968)

'Kleideranprobe' - Dress Fitting

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