Oh Caspar David. 1975.
Oil on panel.
Michels G 75/6. Signed and dated in lower left as well as verso signed, dated "1975/8" and twice titled, teh second title "Ausgekohlter Tagebau" crossed out. 58.8 x 83 cm (23.1 x 32.6 in).

PROVENANCE: Galerie Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London (verso with the gallery's label).
Galerie Brusberg, Hanover.
Company collection BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH & Co. KG, Hanover (acquired from aforementioned).

EXHIBITION: Wolfgang Mattheuer - Nähe und Horizont. Malerei, Grafik, Zeichnung, Plastik, Altes Museum, Berlin, June 22 - August 21, 1988, cat. no. 61.
Wolfgang Mattheuer. Zwischen Idyll und Katastrophe - Bilder von 1958-1999, Kunstverein Coburg, June 26 - August 22, 1999; Galerie Schwind, Frankfurt a. M., October 31 - December 4, 1999; Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, October 30, 1999 - January 9, 2000 (with illu., no. 46).
Abend, Hügel, Wälder, Liebe. Der andere Mattheuer, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, July 14 - October 14, 2007 (with illu., plate 43).
Realisme uit Leipzig. Drie generaties Leipziger Schule, Drents Museum, Assen, January 25 - May 10, 2009, pp. 54f.
Wolfgang Mattheuer. Bilder als Botschaft - Werkschau zum 90. Geburtstag, Kunsthalle Rostock, July 1 - September 17, 2017, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, October 14 . January 7, 2018, p. 223.

LITERATURE: Heinz Schönemann, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Leipzig 1988 (with illu. on plate 68).
Anja Hertel, Wolfgang Mattheuer. Die politische Landschaft, Marburg 2014 (with illu. on plate 16).