Werner Peiner, Herbst

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‘Herbst’ (‘Fall’)
Biography: Werner Peiner

Counterpart to ‘Deutsche Erde’ (almost a mirror image).

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

‘Herbst’ is part of the cyclus: ‘Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring’. Four paintings created in 1933 by Werner Peiner, all 120 x 70 cm, and all with the same frame (see biography below). ‘Frühling’ and ‘Sommer’ were displayed at the GDK 1938, and at the exhibition ‘Werner Peiner und Paraskewe Bereskine’ in the ‘Preussische Akademie der Künste’, Berlin, 1938. The four works were in the possession of oil industrialist Hans Brochhaus and hung during the Third Reich in the Mendelsohn-haus in Berlin.

‘Deutsche Erde’ or ‘Terra tedesca’ (lost).
‘Deutsche Erde’ (‘German Soil’ or ‘Terra tedesca’), 1933. GDK 1938, room 3. The painting was also displayed at the XIX Venice Biennale, 1934, and at the ‘1938 Berliner Ausstellung in der Preussischen Akademie der Künste’.
Hitler ordered that it be hung in the New Chancellery.

Hitler visiting the Venice Biennale in 1934.

Hans Brochhaus was a German oil industrialist in the first half of the 20th century. He was chairman of the oil corporation Elwerath and of the corporation Deutsche Erdöl-Raffinerie Deurag Hannover, and later board member of Kontinentale Öl AG, a German oil company during World War II. Kontinentale Öl was established in 1941 in Berlin with capital of 80 million Reichsmark and had exclusive rights to trade oil products and to acquire oil assets in German-occupied territories. The sole voting right in the company belonged to Borussia GmbH, a state holding company. However, the leading role in the consortium was held by Deutsche Bank and IG Farben.
Brochhausen stood in contact with Hermann Göring. In the files of the Pinakothek in München we found invoices for artworks given to Hermann Göring by Hans Brochhausen: https://www.pinakothek.de/sites/default/files/downloadable/2020-03/BWA_Ankauf_Lazarus.pdf

‘Frühling’ by Peiner, displayed at the GDK 1938 next to ‘Deutsche Erde’ (left on the photo).

‘Frühling’ and ‘Herbst’ by Werner Peiner, displayed at the exhibition ‘Art in the Third Reich, Seduction and Distraction’, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands, November 2023 – March 2024. Photo’s: Eva Broekema.  

‘Frühling’ and ‘Herbst’ by Peiner on Dutch TV (NOS/ 12 November 2023).  NOS Museum Arnhem (at 13.07 min.)

The cyclus ‘Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring’ by Peiner, depicted in the exhibition catalog ‘Art in the Third Reich’ by Jelle Bouwhuis and Almar Seinen, 2023.

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