Heinz Koppel 1919-1980

Sennen

oil on canvas

61 X 91

(upper right): 'Koppel'

1994-12

@Heinz Koppel estate

Photo: Bridgeman images

Koppel depicts the tiny West Cornwall village of Sennen in a typically naïve, almost surreal, style though his treatment and distinctive colouring also reflect a debt to German Expressionism. A...

Provenance

presented by Frank Auerbach 1994

Exhibitions

Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45

Literature

'Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45' (London: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in association with the German Embassy London, 2018), p. 30.; Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 132.

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