Acrylic on canvas;
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse;
19,5 x 23,5 in inch
Robert Hammerstiel is regarded as one of the defining storytellers of European post-war art. His work is characterized by a distinctive visual language that oscillates between folk art, symbolism, and modern formal rigor.
Here, Hammerstiel intertwines personal memory with formal clarity. The still life functions not only as a classical motif but also as a vessel of biographical and collective remembrance. The composition, rendered in luminous colors, unites geometric order with emotional depth—symbols of a lost homeland in which nostalgia and reconciliation resonate in equal measure.
The work stands as a prime example of Hammerstiel’s late period, in which autobiographical reflection and stylistic reduction merge into a meditative visual idiom.
