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Hans Jüchser - Hans Jüchser ”Mulier triumphans - Carnival”. 1966-1973.. Hans Jüchser 1894 Chemnitz – 1977 Dresden Oil on cardboard. Signed and dated upper right ”Jüchser 66/73”. Verso again signed, titled, and dated. In an elaborately carved wooden frame. Provenance: Private collection Saxony; Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden 2008; Private collection Dresden; 1984 Kunstausstellung Kühl, Dresden. Exhibited in: Hans Jüchser – Friedrich Press. Bekenntnis in Form und Farbe. Städtische Galerie Dresden – Kunstsammlung, February 12 to May 16, 2010. Cat. No. 77. Illustrated in: Diether Schmidt: Welt der Kunst Hans Jüchser. Berlin 1978. p. 15, ill. p. 33 Gisbert Porstmann, Linda Karohl (eds.): Hans Jüchser, Farbe als absolute Kraft. Dresden 2010. p. 109. ”Jüchser places the apocalyptic in the carnival [...]”. Like the Great Whore of Babylon, the ”triumphant woman” sits enthroned on the shoulders of two sad harlequins, well aware of the power of her charms. She is flanked by a serious clown and a grinning mask, and only the thoughtful man entering the picture from the right seems to be above temptation. ”[...] Rarely as here does the painter reveal his heart so unveiled [...]”, full of melancholy about ”the bitterness of aging and the foolishness of the lost painter, who lives in the picture and thus lives past life. The painterly compression with impasto brushwork and palette knife technique is enhanced by the small format. Cf. Schmidt, D.: Hans Jüchser. Berlin, 1978. p. 32. Support slightly warped and with fraying and abrasions in the outermost fold area. Small tear in the upper paper layer upper right. Blistering, wave-like detachments of the upper paper layer in the area of the head of the right harlequin and the resting hand, as well as another detachment lower center. Small retouchings in the lower left edge area and at the upper right corner. Dimensions: 44.8 x 36.6 cm, frame 56 x 47 cm. Hans Jüchser 1894 Chemnitz – 1977 Dresden 1908–14 Training as a drawing teacher in Stollberg. Military service in World War I. 1919–23 Studied at the School of Applied Arts Dresden under Arno Drescher and Georg Erler. 1920–34 Member of the Dresden Artists' Association. 1927 Marriage to Paula Jüchser, née Schmidt. 1927 Study trip to southern Sweden and Bornholm. Until 1928, studied at the Dresden Art Academy, master student of Otto Hettner and Ludwig von Hofmann. 1928–39 worked freelance in Dresden, 1930–34 member of ASSO and the ”Dresdner Sezession 1932” there, from 1934 with the ”Gruppe der 7”. 1939 Study trip to Italy. From 1940, military service in the Wehrmacht. After World War II and a period of captivity, worked freelance again in Dresden-Wachwitz from 1950, and exhibited again from 1946. 1959 Marriage to Helga Jüchser, née Schütze.