Richard Oelze
1900 - 1980

Umgebener. 1967.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower left. 100 x 80 cm (39.3 x 31.4 in). [EH].


• Outstanding work by the significant German Surrealist.
• Exhibited at the German Pavilion at the XXXIV Venice Biennale in 1968.
• Complex forms in a subtly drawn, nebulous visual world.
• Works by Richard Oelze can be found in, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Bremen (1971).
Friedrich Grohe Collection, Switzerland.
Private collection, Berlin (1990, Grisebach).

EXHIBITION: XXXIV Venice Biennale, 1968, cat. no. 83 (with a label on the stretcher).
horst janssen, richard oelze, gustav seitz. der deutsche beitrag zur biennale venedig 1968, Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, November 23, 1968–January 1, 1971, cat. no. 79. 1969, cat. no. 79.
ROCS' 71 International Art, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, October 24–December 29, 1971, cat. no. 9 (illustrated on p. 220; with a label on the stretcher).
Galerie Brockstedt, Art '78, Basel/Hamburg (remnants of a label on the stretcher).
Richard Oelze. Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, March 27–May 30, 1987, cat. no. 144 (illustrated on p. 65; with a label on stretcher).

LITERATURE: Wieland Schmied, Richard Oelze. Catalogue raisonné, in: Akademie der Künste Berlin, Richard Oelze, Berlin 1987, pp. 197ff., CR no. 144.
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Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 112th auction, 20th century, November 24-26, 1986, lot 918 (illustrated).
Griesebach, Berlin, 15th auction, Selected Works of Art, November 23, 1990, lot 65 (illustrated).