| Beschreibung |
Walter Spies, 1895 Moskau-1942, 2 watercolors,# "Cercopidae #" 1925 and # "Ordo Coleopteronii
#" 1925, were created during thestay on Java/Bali, below, signed and dated, water
sign Concordia, paper browned and slightstained, 40x27 cm each; Spies grew up as
the son of a diplomat in Russia. From 1918 in Germany he maintained friendships with
Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix and worked at the theater and silent film. In the 1920s/30s,
Spies stayed in Java and Bali in various ways and maintained a kind of insular-cultural
center for prominent European travelers |
