Eisenbahnviadukt bei Pforzheim. 1912.
Oil on canvas.
Lower left monogrammed and dated. 54.5 x 68 cm (21.4 x 26.7 in). [AW].

• Master student of Adolf Hölzel at the Stuttgart Art Academy.
• Together with other Hölzel students such as Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister, he founded the group "Üecht" in 1919.
• Luminous, expressive urban landscape.
• In 1912, the year the work was made, he studied briefly at the Académie Moderne in Paris with Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Bayer, Bietigheim-Bissingen
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Hamburg/Bielefeld.

EXHIBITION: Hermann Stenner und seine Zeit: "… dies Streben nach dem ganz Grossen etwas in der Kunst …", Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, January 20 - August 18, 2019, cat. no. 97 (illu. on p. 162).
Die Sammlung Bunte. Expressionistische Meisterwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts, Ausstellungszentrum Gut Altenkamp, Papenburg, July 12 - Ocotber 25, 2020.