Hugo Scheiber
1871 - 1950
Auf einem Stuhl sitzender Mann. Um 1932.
Tempera and color Chalks.
Lower left signed. On off-white wove paper, laid on cardboard. 56 x 45 cm (22 x 17.7 in), the full sheet. [AW].

• The (anonymous) human being—often depicted in portraits—is an important and recurring motif in Schreiber's work.
• Increased color volumes, complementary contrasts, and an open composition that dispenses with perspective are characteristic features.
• Hugo Schreiber's works were regularly published in Herwarth Walden's magazine “Der Sturm” and presented in the gallery of the same name.
• In 1926, he exhibited at the “International Exhibition of Modern Art” at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, alongside Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Pablo Picasso, and Marcel Duchamp.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.