Ernst Weiers, Night Forest, 1954, Oil Painting on Glass, Framed

Ernst Weiers

1909 Oespel – 1978 Bernried
"Night Forest"
Reverse glass painting, framed [original frame]
Monogrammed and dated (1954) at the bottom center and on the reverse
Size: 40 x 44.8 cm (with frame) or 37 x 42 cm (without frame)
Provenance: Galerie Günther Franke, Munich.

This work was part of the exhibition "Ernst Weiers / Hans Breustedt" at Galerie Günther Franke (Stuckvilla, Munich) in November 1954. It is listed as No. 7 among the reverse glass paintings in the exhibition catalog.

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Ernst Weiers

Painter, draftsman, printmaker.

“The painter Ernst Weiers senses the uncanny nature of the earth. Its darkness is a dangerously alluring secret to him. Like a woodsman, one imagines him in the thicket, listening with hunter-like delight to its endless weaving. [...] His significance, it seems to me, lies in the fact that, based on an instinctive connection to nature in the vein of Marc, he uses the means of abstraction to develop a pictorial form in which the representational—not as object-bound, but rather through its inherent poetic and formal figuration—asserts its right” (Hans Konrad Röthel).

1929–33 Studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (under Heinrich Campendonk). He was later a master student of Paul Klee.

Friendship with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

1933–35 in Switzerland, until he was expelled to Germany.

During the Third Reich, he withdrew from public life and initially lived in Berlin, later in Bernried.

1949 Returned to Bernried and worked there from then on. Close contact with the Faber-Castell family.

Awards:

1954 Böttcherstraße Art Prize, Bremen

1958 Prize at the International Triennial for Original Colored Prints, Grenchen, Switzerland

Collections:
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich
Lenbachhaus, Munich
Artothek Oldenburg
Märkisches Museum, Witten
Faber-Castell Collection