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HANS JAENISCH Ensemble Geist (Group Spirit).
Oil on canvas, 1955. 265x483 mm; 10 1/2x19 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Titled, dated and annotated in ink on the stretcher, verso.
Provenance: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, with the label; Dr. David Y. Solomon, New York; private collection, Chicago.
Jaenisch (1907-1989) was born in Eilenstedt, Thuringia, in 1907, and after attending school there, he went as a young man to Berlin, where he would spend most of his life. Largely self-taught, he joined the 'November Group' and began exhibiting his work during the 1920s with other avant-garde artists associated with Herwarth Walden's Sturm magazine (including the artists El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich as well as many soon to be important Futurist and Dada artists). From 1929 he taught at 'Der Weg', an avant-garde Berlin art school. In the early 1930s Surrealist elements began to surface in Jaenisch's work and continued to appear in later paintings. In 1953, Jaenisch embarked on a teaching career at the Berlin Art Academy which would last for more than two decades. He also exhibited in New York during the 1950s at galleries such as the Martha Jackson Gallery and the Kleemann Galleries among others.
