Ankunft der Hl. Ursula. 1914.
Oil on cardboard.
Inscribed "Ankunft der 1100 Jungfrauen H. Stenner" on the reverse. 39.8 x 58.2 cm (15.6 x 22.9 in).
Study for one of the three murals on the theme of Saint Ursula, created as part of the mural project for the Cologne Werkbund exhibition of 1914. A further oil study was lost in Bielefeld during the Second World War. [AR].

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
In possession of the Stenner family.
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Hamburg/Bielefeld.

EXHIBITION: Hermann Stenner 1891-1914, Städtisches Kunsthaus, Bielefeld, September 9 - October 14, 1956, cat. no. 232 (with the label on the reverse).
Zur Erinnerung. 10 Maler des Expressionismus, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, August 12 - October 15, 1967, cat. no. 73.
Der Hölzelkreis bis 1914, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, June 30 - August 4, 1974, cat. no. 151 (illu. on p. 82).
Hermann Stenner. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Städtische Galerie, Albstadt, December 4, 1977 - January 29, 1978.
Haller Kunsttage, Halle (Westfalen), December 1982, cat. no. 20.
Die Sammlung Hermann-Josef Bunte, Städtische Galerie, Papenburg, November 5, 1995 - February 25, 1996, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Kloster Cismar, March 31 - May 27, 1996, cat. no. 14 (illu. in color onn p. 51).
Die Sammlung Hermann-Josef Bunte. Deutsche Malerei des XX. Jahrhunderts, Hamburger Kunsthalle and Galerie der Haspa, November 1 / December 1, 1999 - March 5, 2000; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, March 12 - April 24, 2000; Kunstmuseum Ahlen, May 21 - July 16, 2000; Museum Baden, Solingen, August 20 - September 17, 2000, p. 28 (color illu.).
Verlorene Nähe. Bilder vom Menschen in der Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts, Sammlung Bunte, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, December 1, 2001 - January 20, 2002; Städtische Galerie in der Reithalle, Schloss Neuhaus, Paderborn, February 1 - March 13, 2002; Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, March 22 - June 15, 2002, cat. no. 116.
Hermann Stenner. Gemälde. Retrospektive 1909-1914, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, June 1 - August 31, 2003; Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, Jesuitenkirche, September 27 - November 16, 2003.

LITERATURE: Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen, Christiane Reipschläger, Hermann Stenner. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, ed. by Freundeskreis Hermann Stenner e. V., Bielefeld 2003, no. 163 (colr illu.).
Hans Georg Gmelin, Hermann Stenner 1891-1914, Munich 1975, no. G 115 (illu. 115 on p. 57).
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Bilderliste Hans Hildebrandt, typescript, Stuttgart 1918, no. 133.
Gustav Vriesen, Der Maler Hermann Stenner, in: Westfalen, vol. 35, 1957, issue 3, p. 163, illu. 89.
E. Stenner, Über das Werk meines Bruders Hermann Stenner, 1981, p. 11 (illu.).
Hermann Stenner 1891-1914. Gemälde und Arbeiten auf Papier, ex. cat. Kunsthalle Bielefeld et al, ed. by Hans-Michael Herzog, Bielefeld 1991, p. 47 (illu.).