2/internal/media/dispatcher/102536/fullStill Life with Two Heads1932[Rudolf Wacker]Rudolf WackerOil on woodWacker has arranged four items for this still life: a bird suspended by a barely visible string, a child’s drawing on the wall, and, further down, on the table, a wig head and a vase containing a single flower. Each of the objects exists by itself, and yet their placement relative to one another suggests subtle interconnections between them. Wacker was concerned with the “world of the visible.” An exponent of the New Objectivity, he sought to show things as they are. His pictures exude an air of cool dispassion—of “objectivity”—yet they are also quite affecting. The wig head, in particular, makes for a piteous sight. The Berlin-based sculptor Lily Gräf, in 1934, found its flayed “skin” and splintered nose more than she could bear.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2084/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/12787/fullOn the Gose River (in Goslar)1932[Rudolf Wacker]Rudolf WackerOil on wood In 1922, the painter Rudolf Wacker, a Vorarlberg native, married Ilse Moebius. Originally from Goslar, she worked in the arts and crafts industry. He created several paintings inspired by her native Goslar in the years that followed. This painting shows a view of the small, old German town. The wooden bridge across the Abzucht river leads to a deserted backyard. The houses seem uninviting and closed off, with mostly windowless facades and overlapping rooflines. The dark tones of the house on the left side of the picture contrast with the lighter colors on the right side. A prominent proponent of New Objectivity, Wacker described himself once as an “advocate of the unnoticed humble things.” Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/4039/rdf