Bridge, 1948
ArtistKurt Neyers,
Düsseldorf
1900–1969
Düsseldorf
MediumOil on canvas
(H x W)60 × 80 cm
Status
not on displayAccessionAcquisition 1948
Provenance1948 Ankauf beim KünstlerInventory number0.1948.5340
Contact
sammlung@kunstpalast.de
About the workThis river landscape is composed of almost geometrically arranged areas of colour. From the 1940s onwards, the Düsseldorf painter Kurt Neyers began to visibly reduce the form of his depictions. After the end of the Second World War, he campaigned for a new beginning in a destroyed Düsseldorf by organising an exhibition free of state influence. One year after this painting was created, he founded the "Neue Rheinische Sezession" group together with other artists – a spin-off of the "Rheinische Sezession", whose members had committed themselves to a more abstract style of painting.