Herman Bieling artwork • statue • sculpture • previously for sale Head
Herman Bieling
Rotterdam 1887-1964 Rhoon
1887-1964
Head
patinated bronze 43.7 x 19.0 cm, executed in the 1920's
This sculpture was previously for sale.
Provenance: vermoedelijk rechtstreeks van de kunstenaar verworven door Hermen Molendijk (1896-1983), in de jaren 30 wethouder in Groningen, later burgemeester van Amersfoort, grootvader van de vorige eigenaar.
Herman Bieling trained at the Rotterdam Academy of Art and lived and worked most of his life in the district Hillegersberg. He was a fervent avant-gardist and driving force behind ‘De Branding’, a Rotterdam artists’ association, whose exhibitions and activities were of a pioneering nature. After 1917 his style evolved from luminous to a synthesis of Cubism and Expressionism. He lost most of his work when a huge fire broke out in his studio in 1930.
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