Description: Expansion. Relief painting. 1960. Paint and pigment on canvas, mounted frame-like edging of red painted corrugated cardboard. 49 x 26 cm. Signed in the lower middle area: ZANGS. Vaguely signed and dated 60 on the lower left margin. Framed on cardboard back wall in acrylic object box. Label mounted on the back side, handwritten inscribed J. FROGET / RUE D'HORLOGE / CUCURON. Enclosed Certificate No. 16-06-372, 15.06.2016, Archive Herbert Zangs, Emmy de Martelaere, Paris, Archive No. 2253. Provenance: acquired in Cucuron (Provence) from the estate of a deceased art dealer in Cucuron. The then gallery owner showed works by Zangs in exhibitions. Herberte Zangs had received the Vincent-van Volkmer Prize in France in 1960 and had bought a house in Cucuron from the prize money. The present works are shown together in the catalogue: Phenomenon. Herbert Zangs. Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1947-2003. Catalogue for the exhibition in the St?dtische Galerie im Park, Viersen 2008, p. 30 '. The picture of the works is titled: 'Expansionen, 1960s, seen at an antique dealer in Cucuron, 2005'. Detailed and atmospheric portrayals of the actor Alexander May about a stay of May, his wife and Zangs at Christmas 1962 or 1963 in Zang's house in Cucuron in a speech by Alexander May in 2000, cf. ibid., pp. 19-30. Herbert Zangs has been awarded several national and international prizes for his work. His works are represented in numerous museum and private collections in Germany and abroad and can be seen regularly in individual and group exhibitions.
Artist or Maker: Herbert Zangs*, (1924-2003)
Date: 1960
Condition Report: Condition Report available on request
Provenance: acquired in Cucuron (Provence) from the estate of a deceased art dealer in Cucuron. The then gallery owner showed works by Zangs in exhibitions. Herberte Zangs had received the Vincent-van Volkmer Prize in France in 1960 and had bought a house in Cucuron from the prize money. The present works are shown together in the catalogue: Phenomenon. Herbert Zangs. Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1947-2003. Catalogue for the exhibition in the St?dtische Galerie im Park, Viersen 2008, p. 30 '. The picture of the works is titled: 'Expansionen, 1960s, seen at an antique dealer in Cucuron, 2005'. Detailed and atmospheric portrayals of the actor Alexander May about a stay of May, his wife and Zangs at Christmas 1962 or 1963 in Zang's house in Cucuron in a speech by Alexander May in 2000, cf. ibid., pp. 19-30. Herbert Zangs has been awarded several national and international prizes for his work. His works are represented in numerous museum and private collections in Germany and abroad and can be seen regularly in individual and group exhibitions.