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Description
‘Mädchen in den Dünen’ (‘Girls in the Dunes’).
Displayed at the Great German Art Exhibition 1940 room 4.
‘Mädchen in den Dünen’ by Schwarz, displayed at the GDK 1940 room 4.
Photo of ‘Mädchen in die Dünen’ by Schwarz, taken at the GDK 1940.
| – condition | : II |
| – size | : unframed 154 x 120 cm |
| – signed | : right, under |
| – type | : oil on canvas |
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BIOGRAPHY: ROBERT SCHWARZ
Left: Robert Schwarz, ‘Schwimmerin’ (Swimmer’), created 1939. GDK 1939, room 4. Bought by Hitler for 3.000 Reichsmark. In the possession of the German Historical Museum. Size 140 x 60 cm. Displayed at the exhibition ‘Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne‘, Weimar, 1999.
Right: ‘Schwimmerin’ displayed at the exhibition ‘Artige Kunst, Kunst und Politik im Nationalsozialismus‘ (‘Compliant Art, Art and Politics in the National Socialist era’) held at Museum Situation Kunst, Bochum (November 2016 – April 2017), Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock (April – June 2017) and at Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg (July – October 2017). Depicted in the exhibition catalogue.
Left: Robert Schwarz, ‘Junge Menschen’ (‘Young people’). GDK 1940 room 4. Sold by a German auction house in 2015.
Right: ‘Junge Menschen’ by Schwarz, displayed at the GDK 1940 room 4.
‘Junge Menschen’ by Schwarz, displayed at the exhbition ‘Malerei, Graphik, Plastik’, in the Berliner Kunsthalle, 6 December 1941 – 31 Januari 1942. Again displayed at the ‘Frühjahrs-Ausstellung Düsseldorf’, 1942, Kunsthalle-Düsseldorf (the sculpture left is ‘Führer Befiehl, wir Folgen’, plaster, by Georg Türke, offered for 15.000 Reichsmark).
Left: Robert Schwarz, ‘Badende Mädchen’ (‘Girls Bathing’). GDK 1943 room 21. Bought by Gauleiter Florian for 8.000 Reichsmark. Sold by a German auction house in 2014. Size 182 x 137 cm. A sticker at the back reads ‘Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung 1943 im Haus der Deutschen Kunst zu München, Einliefererbuch 3050’.
Right: ‘Badende Mädchen’ depicted in ‘Düsseldorfer Künstler im Haus der Deutschen Kunst’, 1943.
‘Badende Mädchen’ by Schwarz, depicted in the ‘Deutsche Zeitung im Ostland‘, 26 April 1942.
Left: Robert Schwarz, ‘Morgen an der See’ (‘Morning at Sea’), HDK-postcard. Displayed at the GDK 1941, room 24.
Right: Robert Schwarz, ‘Erholung’ (‘Vacation’). GDK 1939, room 4; depicted in the exhibition catalogue. Bought by Hitler for 4.000 Reichsmark. In the possession of Deutsches Historisches Museum. The painting depicts the beach of The Netherlands. Depicted in the official catalogue of the exhibition ‘Kunst und Diktatur’, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, 1994. Size 157 x 80 cm. Displayed at the exhibition ‘Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne‘, Weimar, 1999.
Robert Schwarz, ‘Badende’ (‘Bathing girls’), signed 1944. Sold by a German auction house in 2014. Size 190 x 130 cm. This might be the work ‘Badende’, displayed at the GDK 1944, room 21.
Left: Robert Schwarz, ‘Schauende’ (‘Watching’), depicted in ‘Düsseldorfer Künstler im Haus der Deutschen Kunst’, 1943.
Right: ‘Schauende’, displayed at the GDK 1943, room 6.
Robert Schwarz, ‘Zwei Tänzerinnen’ (‘Two Dancers’). Size 180 x 134 cm. Sold by a German auction house in 2016.
Robert Schwarz
Robert Schwarz (1899 – 1962) was born in 1899 in Duisburg. He went to the ‘Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf‘ and studied later at the Art Academy in the same city. Around 1927/28, he worked in Bad Godesberg as a teacher of art, painting and graphics. Finally he settled as a painter in Düsseldorf. Schwarz was a member of the ‘Künstlergruppe Junges Rheinland’, which was founded by the writer Herbert Eulenberg. Junges Rheinland, of which many members were Expressionists, held its first exhibition in 1919 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Schwarz first became known in the Ruhr and Rhein area, and then later throughout the whole country, including in the art city of Munich. He mainly painted full-length portraits, female nudes and landscapes.
In 1940 Schwarz participated in the exhibition ‘Herbstausstellung Düsseldorfer Künstler’, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, and a year later in the exhibition ‘Rheinische Kunstausstellung’, Danzig. Towards the end of 1941 he took part in the exhibition ‘Malerei, Graphik, Plastik’, in the Berliner Kunsthalle, 6 December 1941 – 31 Januari 1942. In 1942 he participated in the ‘Frühjahrs-Ausstellung Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle/Düsseldorf, also in the ‘Kunstausstellung für Deutsche Soldaten‘, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, and a year later in the exhibition ‘Esposizione d’Arte Contemporanea di Düsseldorf’, in Florence.
Eight works by Robert Schwarz, all nudes, were displayed at the Great German Art Exhibitions. Adolf Hitler bought ‘Erholung’ and ‘Schwimmerin’ for 4,000 and 3,000 Reichsmark respectively. Both works are in the possession of the German Historical Museum. ‘Badende Mädchen’ was bought by Gauleiter Florian for 8,000 Reichsmark. In 2014 and 2015 three GDK-works by Schwarz were sold at a German Auction: Junge Menschen’, ‘Mädchen in den Dünen’ and ‘Badende Mädchen’.
Robert Schwarz died at the age of 63 in 1962 in Düsseldorf. His works were mostly forgotten, until 2009 when eighty of his works were found in a house in Düsseldorf belonging to one of his granddaughters. In October, 2011 the Düsseldorf-based Gallery Liestmann displayed around 40 of Schwarz’s works, created from 1917 to 1948. The Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and the Osthaus Museum in Hagen have some works by Robert Schwarz in their possession.
‘Schwimmerin’ (‘Swimmer’, GDK 1939) and ‘Erholung’ (‘Vacation’, GDK 1939) were displayed at the exhibition ‘Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne‘, Weimar, 1999. ‘Schwimmerin’ by Schwarz was again displayed at the exhibition ‘Artige Kunst, Kunst und Politik im Nationalsozialismus‘ (‘Compliant Art, Art and Politics in the National Socialist era’) held at Museum Situation Kunst, Bochum (November 2016 – April 2017), Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock (April – June 2017) and at Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg (July – October 2017).