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Remarkable artist, his works can be found in important German public and privat collections. He belongs to the so-called "verschollenen Generation" (Forgotten Generation), which describes a generation of young German artists born between 1890 and 1905. Artists who didn't have the possibility of continuous working and neither to exhibit consistently, because their lifes and creation was influenced by the difficult circumstances of two World Wars. Mainly of the Nazi Regime, they became victims of the denunciation of '“Degenerate Art“. Their early work was often destroyed or torn apart and so they fall into oblivion. Until several newer publications and exhibitions, which reminded on their first successes, drawn a wide attention from museums and privat collectors to them. Recently many artists of this generation been revalued and continue to climb in value. They are also called „Expressive Realists“.
Literature: Vollmer, vol 4, p. 333; Bernd Küster, Kunstwerkstatt Worpswede, 1989; Rainer Zimmermann, Die Kunst der verschollenen Generation, p 448, Munich 1994; Museum Bochum, 50 Jahre Künstlerbund, 1996. Clemens Kreuzer, Richard Sprick als Bochumer Künstler der 20er/30er Jahre, Bochumer Zeitpunkte.
Sprick´s landscape paintings are enthusiastically pieces of fine art, far more as naturalistic depiction, he catches atmosphere. The Viewers' senses the midday silence and the flooded sunlight in his white cities of the South, just as the aura in a French bistro or the salty wind on the Swedish archipelago. A master of composition with more delicate, as bright colors. He ever mastered the shaping of contradictory moods of the seasons and of the various types of different areas... (cf. Dr. Gertraude Uhlhorn, Bochum 1983).
Excellent original condition. Further details and price on request.
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