1876 The Hague – 1923 Domburg
COMPOSITION VII [ZEILSCHEPEN VOOR DE KUST]
woodcut in black, hand colored with watercolor, on japan paper
image size: 198 x 28 mm
signed and numbered lower left: Jacoba vanHeemskerck n: 4 VII
date: 1916
provenance:
possibly Ida Bienert, Dresden;
Friedrich Bienert, Dresden;
Stadtmuseum Dresden inv.no. 1982/K1372;
restituted to Friedrich Bienert’s heirs in 2004;
sold by the above at Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden, 21.9.2019, lot 602;
with Galerie Berinson, Berlin until 2024.
literature:
- A.H. Huussen jr., J.F.A. van Paaschen-Louwerse, Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest, Schilderes uit roeping, Zwolle, 2005, cat. no. 316
This woodcut was part of Friedrich Bienert’s art collection. He may well have inherited it from his mother, Ida Bienert. The Bienert family accumulated one of the most important collections of contemporary art in Germany. Thanks to Ida Bienert’s support and patronage, Dresden became, if only for a few years, the center of Constructivism in the mid-1920s and remained a vibrant location for galleries and cultural life. Ida Bienert bought most avant-garde art from Herwarth Walden between 1915 and 1921.