Bidspirit auction | Henke, Ulrich (1896-?)

Henke, Ulrich (1896-?) - Still Life with Tableware and Apples, 1933 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 16.54 × 21.85 in The German-Canadian painter Ulrich August Henke was born in Braunschweig and later emigrated to British Columbia. In the painterly process, the forms gradually begin to dissolve into brushstrokes, causing the depiction of objects to recede in favor of an atmospheric, almost floating pictorial effect. Light and shadow are finely balanced, lending the scene a quiet, almost meditative tension. Henke’s still lifes thus captivate through their understated intensity and the interplay between objective clarity and a poetic dissolution of form.