Ludwig Platzöder, Stilleben mit roter Weste und Hut

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				Price: USD  17,500

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‘Stilleben mit roter Weste und Hut’ (‘Still life with red Waistcoat and Hat’)
Biography: Ludwig Platzöder

Displayed at the GDK 1938, room 16.
Bought at the GDK 1938 by the Lufgaukommando VII (Munich), and placed in the Officers mess of the Airbase Leipheim.
With stamp on the back of the Luftwaffe, dated 1940, and FL. U.V., indicating ‘Flieger Unterkunft Verwaltung’ (Flight Barracks Administration). Also a sticker on the back reading: ‘Unterkunftsverwaltung Leipheim’.

Deeply conservative art on a high-tech military production facility
The still lifes by Platzöder are a deeply conservative Bavarian form of art. What is remarkable is the fact that this style of art hung in high-technology military facilities, like the Fliegerhorst Leipheim.
Fliegerhorst Leipheim, build in 1936/ 37, was a Wehrmacht Airbase near the city of Leipheim, Bavaria. From 1940 to 1945 Messerschmitt GmbH Augsburg had aircraft production plants in operation at the airbase (and also assembly factories in the forests scattered around the airbase). Produced (assembled) at the Messerschmitt factory in Leipheim was the World’s first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262. On 18 July 1942, test pilot Fritz Wendel made the first test Me 262 flight on jet power alone from the airfield at Leipheim.
Conservative art hand in hand with high technology.

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