Landschaftswirbel (Profil-Serie). 1964.
Pencil drawing.
Signed in the lower right. Verso dated (1964/5), titled as well as with the dimensions “90/63”. On off-white Schoeller wove paper (with blindstamp). 90.2 x 62.5 cm (35.5 x 24.6 in), size of sheet.
The signature and writing on the reverse suggest a portrait format, whereas in Wieland Schmied's catalogue raisonné mentions the work as a landscape format and with the signature in the lower left. [AR].

• Privately owned for more than 50 years.
• The work of this important German Surrealist is characterized by ambiguous forms in misty pictorial worlds.
• From the artist's very successful period around 1960: participation in the documenta II (1959) and documenta III (1964) in Kassel and in the 1968 Venice Biennale..

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hesse (presumably acquired from Dr. Ewald Rathke, art dealer, Frankfurt am Main, around 1970).

EXHIBITION: Richard Oelze, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, September 16 - October 25, 1964, cat. no. 303 (here under the title "Landschaft mit Wirbel").

LITERATURE: Wieland Schmied, Richard Oelze 1900-1980. Gemälde und Zeichnungen, exhibition catalog, Akademie der Künste Berlin, incl. list of works, catalogue raisonné no. Z 150 (no illu., Richard Oelze, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, September 16 - October 25, 1964, cat. no. 303 (here under the title "Landschaft mit Wirbel").

In good condition. With isolated handling marks and small creases in the corners of the sheets. Slightly unevenly browned and with isolated brown spots.