Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Sternblattranken
1951

Oil on canvas

90 × 90 cm / 35 7/16 × 35 7/16 in

Signed and dated »51« and on the verso of the stretcher signed again, dated »1950« and titled

Catalogue Raisonné by Scheibler 1990 no. 566

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Provenance

The artist's studio; Private Collection North Rhine-Westphalia; Art dealer Brigitte Büdenhölzer, Emmendingen (1996); Collection Monika & Horst Bülow, Leonberg (1996-2025)

Exhibitions

„Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Ölgemälde, Aquarelle und Grafiken", Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck/Kunstverein Bremen + Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen/Kunstverein Steinernes Haus, Frankfurt 1953
"1. Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo", São Paulo 1951
Galerie Günther Franke, "Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Bilder 1950/1951", München 1951

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2026", Düsseldorf 2026, S. 132
Ulrike Gross/Sebastian Preuss, „Zukunft und Erinnerung - Sechzig Jahre deutsche Kunst auf der Biennale São Paulo", in: „German Art in São Paulo, Deutsche Kunst auf der Biennale, German Art at the Biennial 1951-2012", Ostfildern 2013, S. 63ff. + S. 321
Aurel Scheibler, "Ernst Wilhelm Nay – Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, Bd. 1 1922-1951", Köln 1990, Nr. 566
Galerie Günther Franke (Hg.), "Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Bilder 1950/1951", München 1951, Nr. 15
"1. Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo", São Paulo 1951, Nr. 15

About Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Ernst Wilhelm Nay was one of the most important representatives of German post-war art. His pictures show a relationship with the Informel.