Lempertz · Lot 327
Gruppe im Wasser
Tusche und Sepia auf Karton
Auction date : 2022-06-02
Published result : 6300 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 5000
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Willi Sitte
Documented citizenships : Germany · Germany
The German painter Willi Sitte, born in 1921 in Kratzau (now Chrastava), grew up in a Czech family whose father was of German origin. In 1944, while serving in the Wehrmacht in Italy, he collaborated with the partisans; in 1947, he settled in Halle and became a member of the SED. At the Burg Giebichenstein School of Fine Arts, he consulted the Bauhaus library and discovered painters of modern art there. He looked particularly to Picasso and sought to develop a modern, individual realism in the service of the communist utopia. Picasso’s Minotauromachy is an explicit reference in the drawing Massacre of the Innocents I, which reprises its composition and certain details; Alfred Rethel’s cycle Another Dance of Death is also cited among his models.
A Männlicher Rückenakt from 1982, catalogued under his name, is an oil painting on fibreboard measuring 68 × 56 cm, signed and dated “W.Sitte 82”. The published provenance lists the Galleria d’Arte Piccinini in Cortina d’Ampezzo, followed by a private collection in Italy. His place in the artistic and political life of the GDR is reflected in several roles: he chaired the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR from 1974 to 1988, became a member of the People’s Chamber in 1976, and then a member of the SED Central Committee in 1986.
This profile brings together identity references for Willi Sitte and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Lempertz
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Works recorded at auction
Lempertz · Lot 391
Male nude, seen from behind
Oil on hardboard
Original catalogue wording
Männlicher Rückenakt
Öl auf Hartfaser
Auction date : 2021-12-04
Published result : 20000 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 6000
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Lempertz · Lot 389
Fliegende Möwe
Oil on cardboard
Original catalogue wording
Fliegende Möwe
Öl auf Karton
Auction date : 2021-12-04
Published result : 10000 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 5000
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Lempertz · Lot 390
Überfall
Oil on cardboard
Original catalogue wording
Überfall
Öl auf Karton
Auction date : 2021-12-04
Published result : 13750 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 6000
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Lempertz · Lot 392
Strandszene
Oil on hardboard
Original catalogue wording
Strandszene
Öl auf Hartfaser
Auction date : 2021-12-04
Published result : 87500 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 15000
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Lempertz · Lot 613
Reminiszenz an Tintoretto
Oil on hardboard
Original catalogue wording
Reminiszenz an Tintoretto
Öl auf Hartfaser
Auction date : 2018-12-01
Published result : 9920 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Lempertz · Lot 783
Herr Mittelmaß bewundert sich im Schaufenster
Oil on cardboard
Original catalogue wording
Herr Mittelmaß bewundert sich im Schaufenster
Öl auf Karton
Auction date : 2018-06-02
Published result : 6200 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 5000
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Lempertz · Lot 721
Liebespaar im Bett
Oil on cardboard
Original catalogue wording
Liebespaar im Bett
Öl auf Karton
Auction date : 2016-06-04
Published result : 12400 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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