Hans Schroedter, Die Holzsäger

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‘Die Holzsäger’ (‘The Wood Sawyers’)
Biography: Hans Schroedter

Monumental painting; size 169 x 112 cm.
Signed 1943.
Masterpieces of ‘Blood and Soil’.

— displayed at the exhibition ‘Art in the Third Reich, Seduction and Distraction’, November 2023 – March 2024, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands —

Hans Schroedter, ‘Waldarbeiter’ (‘ Forestry Workers’). Early version of ‘Die Holzsäger’. Displayed at the exhibition ‘Der Wald’, 1936, Berlin, organised by the NS-Kulturgemeinde Berlin. Depicted in ‘Das Bild’, 1936; and depicted and described in 2005 in ‘Artists for the Reich, Culture and Race from Weimar to Nazi Germany’, by John L. Clinefelter. Later depicted in ‘Die Malerei im Deutschen Faschismus’, Bertold Hinz, 1974. Another undated version of ‘Waldarbeiter’ is in the possession of the city of Donaueschingen. 

Hans Schroedter, ‘Holzhacker’. Depicted in ‘Die Kunst für Alle’, 1938/39.

‘Die Holzsäger’ by Hans Schroedter, displayed at the exhibition ‘Art in the Third Reich, Seduction and Distraction’, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands, November 2023 – March 2024. Photo’s: Eva Broekema.
   

‘Die Holzsäger’ by Schroedter on Dutch TV (NOS/ 12 November 2023). NOS Museum Arnhem (at 13.07 min.)

‘Die Holzsäger’ on German TV (ZDF/ 12 December 2023). ZDF Museum Arnhem (at 24.58 min.)

‘Die Holzsäger’ by Schroedter, depicted in the exhibition catalog ‘Art in the Third Reich’ by Jelle Bouwhuis and Almar Seinen, 2023/24.

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