(Trient 1870–1940 Innsbruck)
“Dorf Schenna”, 1907, signed Nikodem, overwritten with A. Nikodem 09; inscribed by another hand on the reverse: A. Nikodem Meran, 1907/”Dorf Schenna”, oil on canvas, 50.2 x 71.6 cm, framed

Full page colour illustration:
Elio Krivdic/Günther Dankl. Artur Nikodem. Maler und Fotograf der Moderne, Tyrolia-Verlag, 2017

Exhibited and with a full-page colour illustration in the catalogue:
Artur Nikodem. Zwischen Stadt und Land, Schloss Tirol 2018, p. 63, listed p. 62, cat. no. 1

Provenance:
the studio of the artist
Private Collection Tyrol
thence by descent

“Diese Zeit (14 Jahre) in Südtirol kam ich ganz tief in das Leben der Bergbauern in einsamen Dörfern und Hochtälern, wo der Mensch der verkörperte Ausdruck und Offenbarung des Berges ist, wo Aberglaube Glaube ist und Glauben das Leben-hier das sehen von Haus und Wald, Bergwiesen, Mensch und Tier bis in die Gletscher…”

Artur Nikodem, Brief an Josef A. Steurer, Mai 1928, aus der angeführten Literatur

“During this time (14 years) in South Tyrol, I was very deeply immersed in the lives of the alpine farmers living in lonely villages and high valleys. This is where man is the embodied expression and manifestation of the mountain, where superstition is faith and faith is life – which here means house and forest, mountain meadows, man and animal in the glaciers.”

Artur Nikodem, letter to Josef A. Steurer, May 1928, from the cited literature