Railroad Keeper’s Booth, 1925
MediumOil on cardboard
(H x W)63 × 83 cm
About the workBright light falls through the windows of the railroad keeper’s booth onto the nightly landscape. The railroad keeper stares out absently. The painting was created during the most successful period of the painter Georg Scholz. In 1925, he presented the work at the important “Neue Sachlichkeit” exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, which gave its name to the German art that emerged as a reaction to the political and social upheavals of the interwar period. In many of his portraits and city views, Scholz thematises the German petit bourgeoisie of these years.
AccessionAcquisition 1927
Provenance[...]; 25.10.1927 angekauft von der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf GmbH, Berlin
Inventory number0.1927.5231
