Picture gallery

Themes and epochs by Erwin Bowien

Retrospective by Erwin Bowien at the Kunstmuseum Solingen, 2014
Retrospective by Erwin Bowien at the Kunstmuseum Solingen, 2014

Self-portraits

  • Catalog of Works N ° 2171 - Erwin Bowien, young self-portrait, 1920s
  • Catalog of Works N ° 31 - Self-Portrait, 1928
  • Catalog of Works N ° 52 - Self-Portrait, 1930
  • Catalog of Works N ° 71 - Self-Portrait with Lady, 1933
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1083 - Self-Portrait with a Child's Head in the Background, ca.1935
  • Self-portrait by Erwin Bowien, ca.1922
  • Catalog of Works N ° 190 - Self-Portrait - Oil on Wood, 1944
  • EGO - self-portrait, 1956

Venice

  • St Mark's Column in Venice, 1927
  • View of the lagoon, 1952
  • View of St. Mark's Basilica, 1952
  • The Campanile of Torcello near Venice, 1952
  • Catalog of Works N ° 328 - Bridge in Torcello near Venice, 1952
  • Cafe in Venice, 1954
  • Landscape near Verona, 1954
  • Torcello near Venice, 1959
  • In a vaporetto on the Venice lagoon, 1954
  • The Venice lagoon, 1952
  • The Venice lagoon, 1952

In exile in Holland

  • Catalog of Works N ° 1141 - Dutch coast in summer, 1937
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1046 - Dutch canal with farmhouse, 1933
  • On the outskirts of Alkmaar, 1933
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1101 - Dutch canal landscape, farmer with cow
  • Werkverzeichnis N° 1101 - Holländische Grachtenlandschaft, Bauer mit Kuh
  • Thunderstorm over the dunes, 1936
  • Catalog of Works N ° 2854 - Attic on the Prinzengracht in Amsterdam, 1936
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1145 - Dutch coast in winter, 1937
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1234 - Spieldüne in Zandvoort (The Hague) during the war, 1942
  • Portrait of the musician and cantor Jan Zwart, 1930s
  • Egmond aan den Hoef, 1939, Foto Frits van Eck, Collection Museum van Egmond

Solingen and the Bergisches Land

  • Catalog of Works N ° 67 - Winter Garden of a Solingen family of manufacturers, 1933
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1834 - City view of Solingen in winter (Gleisdreieck), 1942
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1835 - Solingen Old Market in Winter, 1942
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1838 - Kölner Straße with Lutherkirche in Solingen, 1942
  • Catalog of Works N ° 2849 - The North Wall with the St. Clemens Church in Solingen, 1942
  • City church Solingen in the snow, winter 1942
  • Catalog raisonné N ° 1262 - Portrait of Leni Bracht, 1946
  • Dr. Emil Kronenberg, 1946
  • Catalog of Works N ° 211 - Wipperkotten an der Wupper, oil, collection of the Stadtsparkasse Solingen, 1946
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1267 - Leichlinger Sandberge, 1946
  • Impressions from Castle Burg an der Wupper, 1952
  • View of the Wupper near Solingen, 1932

Bavaria, Swabia & Allgäu

  • Catalog of Works N ° 2855 - Kreuzthaler Snow Impression I, 1945
  • Catalog of Works N ° 2856 - Kreuzthaler Snow Impression II, 1945
  • Catalog of Works N ° 163 - Augsburg, view of the town hall, 1943
  • Catalog of Works N ° 176 - Winter in Kreuzthal-Eisenbach in Allgäu, 1944
  • Erwin Bowien - In the woods of Adelegg, 1944
  • Simone Quakot in Kreuzthal-Eisenbach - pastel, 1945
  • View of Kreuzthal-Eisenbach, 1945
  • Erna Heinen-Steinhoff reading, 1945
  • Chapel in Kreuzthal-Eisenbach, 1945
  • Panorama of the Zugspitze, 1942
  • Unknown beauty in Kreuzthal, 1941
  • Erna Heinen - Steinhoff with daughters Bettina and Gabriele on the way to Kreuzthal-Eisenbach, 1941

The island of Sylt (Klappholttal)

  • Sunset on Sylt, 1957
  • Lecture at the Volkshochschule Klappholtal, August 23, 1951
  • Impressions on Sylt beach, 1952
  • Erwin Bowien (1899-1972) - Impression from Sylt, 1950s
  • Pianist in Klappoltal, Sylt, 1952
  • Beach impressions on Sylt, 1952
  • Impressions on Sylt beach, 1952
  • Impressions on Sylt beach, 1952

Hannoversch Münden

  • The old Werra bridge in Hannoversch Münden, 1948
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1457 - Werra Bridge in Hannoversch Münden in Winter, 1956
  • Werra bridge with castle in Hannoversch Münden, 1958
  • Welfenschloss in Hannoversch Münden, 1958
  • City vedute in Hannoversch Münden, 1958
  • City vedute in Hannoversch Münden, 1967
  • Landscape near Hannoversch Münden, 1956

Switzerland cycle

  • Catalog of Works N ° 406 - Braunwald, view of the Tödi massif, 1955
  • A bridge in Basel, 1949
  • Panorama of Lake Maggiore, ca.1954
  • In the high mountains, 1950s
  • Catalog of Works N ° 618 - Bellinzona, 1961
  • Catalog of Works N ° 643 - balcony view of Locarno, 1962
  • In the Swiss high mountains, around 1960
  • Street in Chur, 1962
  • St. Gallen Oberland, 1963
  • Catalog raisonné N ° 784 - Street scene with Münster in Swiss town, 1967
  • Catalog of Works N ° 815 - Saas Fe in Switzerland, 1969
  • Flower still life over Lake Maggiore, 1953
  • Ticino, study, 1953
  • Ticino, 1963
  • Ticino near Locarno, study, 1953
  • Group study in Bern, 1953
  • Alley in Basel, 1921
  • Swiss impression, 1954
  • On a Swiss lake, 1954
  • View from the banks of the Aare to the Sankt Ursen Cathedral in Solothurn, Switzerland, oil on canvas, 1958

Rhine cycle

  • Catalog of Works N ° 656 - Forest landscape at the sources of the Rhine, 1962
  • Impression of the Middle Rhine in ecember 1953
  • Impression of the Middle Rhine in June 1960
  • Impression of the Middle Rhine in December 1961
  • Catalog of Works N ° 666 - Rhine Bridge near Kleve, 1963
  • Catalog of Works N ° 841 - St.-Theobald-Münster in Thann (Alsace), 1970
  • Catalog of Works N ° 828 - Cologne Cathedral, 1970
  • Worms Cathedral, 1970
  • Strasbourg Cathedral, 1970
  • View of Cologne Cathedral, 1970
  • Landscape on the Upper Rhine, 1954
  • The Upper Rhine near Chur

Norway cycle

  • Fjord Landscape in Norway, 1959
  • Impressions from Northern Norway, 1957
  • On the way to the North Cape, 1957
  • Fishing boat in Northern Norway
  • Ship at the Arctic Circle, Aalsten Island, ca. 1960
  • Catalogue of works N ° 596 - Trondheim in Norway 1961
  • City view of Trondheim, 1961
  • Catalogue of works N ° 648 - Boat in front of the "Seven Sisters", Norway, 1962
  • Norwegian Impression, ca. 1960
  • On the Road in Norway, 1954
  • The harbour of Sandnessjoen in Norway, 1961
  • Norwegian Islands, Study, 1958
  • Norwegian Island, study, 1957
  • Norwegian Island, study, 1957
  • On a ship in Norway, study, 1958
  • Sandnessjoen, 1959
  • The harbour of Sandnessjoen, 1961
  • Bay of Sadnessjoen, 1952
  • Fishermen from Lake Mjosa, oil on canvas, Norway, 1957
  • Norwegian Landscape with Lake, 1964
  • Mountain panorama on the island of Alsten, 1969

Paris, Brussels, Aachen

  • Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1961
  • Catalog of Works N ° 704 - Ile de la Cité, Paris, 1964
  • Place de la Concorde by day, 1964
  • Place de la Concorde at night, 1964
  • At the Seine, 1964
  • Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, 1964
  • Obelisque Place de la Concorde, 1964
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1468 - La Grand'Place de Bruxelles, 1957
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1062 - Interior of the Aachen Cathedral, 1934

Weil am Rhein, Markgräfler Land and Dreiländereck

  • Ship in the port of Weil am Rhein, 1962
  • Weil am Rhein, 1948
  • Trip to the forest: In the car with Mother Anne - Marie Bowien, 1952
  • Landscape in the Markgräfler Land, 1952
  • The Rhine Harbour of Weil am Rhein, 1959
  • The railway station of Weil am Rhein by night, 1960
  • The Rhine near Weil am Rhein, 1960
  • View of Weil, 1967
  • View of Haltingen and Basel from Weil am Rhein

Algeria and Morocco

  • Catalog of Works N ° 839 - The port of Skikda in Algeria, 1970
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1075 - Mosque of El Oued in Algeria, 1934
  • Landscape at Fez in Morocco, 1934
  • On the terrace of the Grand Hotel d'Orient in Annaba, Algeria, 1971
  • Desert storm over the Sidi Okba oasis, 1971
  • Women of Algiers, study 1934
  • Children in Algeria, 1970
  • Menschgruppe im algerischen Biskra, 1934

Portraits of people

  • Catalog of Works N ° 65 - Ms. Erna Heinen - Steinhoff with arms raised, 1932
  • Catalog of Works N ° 32 - Frieda Enzenross with drooping hair, 1928
  • Catalog of Works N ° 61 - Hanns Heinen, reading in an armchair, 1932
  • Catalog of Works N ° 59 - Hanns Heinen with his sons Hans-Theo and Gunther, 1932
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1021 - Drowned boy
  • Child in the Netherlands, 30s
  • Catalog of Works N ° 82 - Portrait of Ms. Erna Heinen-Steinhoff with an umbrella, 1936
  • Children's picture Bettina Heinen - Ayech
  • Young Dutchman, 1938
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1153 - The Baby Bettina, 1938
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1164 - Kind Bettina in profile, 1939

Flower portraits

  • Flower portrait, 1945
  • Catalog of works N ° 1082 - bowl with nuts and chrysanthemums, 1934
  • Flower portrait, 1959
  • Flower portrait, 1961
  • "Nature Morte" with flowers, 1961
  • Flower portraits, 1965
  • Catalog of Works N ° 171 - Tulip painting (The grave of the Russian soldier in the cemetery of Kreuzthal-Eisenbach)
  • Flowers from Brambuesch (Chur), 1966

Sketches, drawings and graphite work

  • Nude in the dunes, 1932
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1933- Interior of a Cafe, 1930
  • British warship in the port of Malta, 1934
  • Catalog of Works N ° 2083 - The Angel of Peace is in the final stages VIII, 1939
  • The children Gabriele and Bettina Heinen, 1939
  • A section of the Reichsbahn in southern Germany, 1942
  • Market in Locarno, 1952
  • Impression from the Markgräfler Land
  • Course on the island of Aalsten in Norway, 1959
  • Norwegian fjord, 1960
  • Erwin Bowien (1899 - 1972) - In the train station - Copenhagen, 1957
  • Erwin Bowien (1899 - 1972) - Basel, 1952
  • Erwin Bowien (1899 - 1972) - Norwegian Forest, 1961
  • Erwin Bowien (1899 - 1972) - In the on-board restaurant of the ferry to Oslo, 1959
  • Erwin Bowien (1899 - 1972) - Cargo trailer, 1963
  • Erwin Bowien (1899 - 1972) - At Mjösa Lake in Norway, 1963
  • Erwin Bowien (1899 - 1972) - Murnau in Upper Bavaria, 1956
  • Study in a train station restaurant, 1963

Youth in Neuchâtel (CH) - soldier on the western front - studies in Munich

  • Catalog of Works N ° 04 - Cherry Tree in Neuchâtel (CH), 1916
  • Catalog of works N ° 06 - Portrait of the father Erich Bowien painted at the age of 16
  • Catalog of Works N ° 1869 - Swiss portrait of women, ca.1915
  • Pine near Neuchâtel, 1916
  • Swiss mountain range, watercolor, 1917
  • Catalog of Works N ° 03 - Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1916
  • The tomb of Lieutenant Dr. Neufeldt in Varennes, 1920
  • Still life on hunting loto Killenberg, 1921
  • The Eisbach in Munich, 1923
  • Catalog raisonné N ° 919 - Terrace of the House Bowien - Villa Maujobia N ° 07 in Neuchâtel

Lake Constance, Killenberg Castle near Salem

  • Catalog of Works N ° 53 - Enzenross family on a Lake Constance ship, 1930
  • Werkverzeichnis N° 11 - Blick vom Killenberg über den Weiher, 20er Jahre
  • Killenberg Castle in summer, 1922
  • Killenberg Castle in winter, 1922
  • Miss Enzenroß at Killenberg Castle, 1928

Animal representations

  • Studie für die Darstellung eines Hundes, 1934
  • Camels, study, 1928
  • Fish, study, 1953
  • Big cats, study, 1954
  • Sea parrot, 1958
  • Cats, study, 1958
  • Great Dane, study, 1965
  • Elephants in the circus, study, 1958
  • The cats at Dalskogen Farm in Sandnessjøen, Norway, 1960

Ceramics

  • Self-Portrait
  • Beach view from Egmont aan den See, 1938
  • Catalog of Works N ° 2759 - Notre Dame de Paris, 1964
  • Locarno on Lake Maggiore, 1963
  • Street address in Bellinzona, 1963
  • Catalog of Works N ° 2773 - View of Sipplingen on Lake Constance, 1968
  • Catalog of works N ° 2779 - Vogorno, 1969
  • Child on a railing, 1962
  • Festival near Alkmaar, 1930s
  • Covered bridge in Switzerland, 1968

Holzschnitte

  • Woodcut my book
  • Woodcut Notjahr, 1931
  • Catalog of Works N ° 2808 - Rider on Elephant, 1924
  • Catalog of Works N ° 2811 - Last Supper, 1925
  • Woodcut Notjahr, 1931

Stolen, destroyed, lost

  • Looted - Catalog of Works N ° 1078 - The Colosseum in Rome at night, pastel, 1934 - the work was looted in 2006 when it broke into Solingen
  • Lost - Stadtvedute, ca.1928
  • Looted - Catalog of Works N ° 57 - Portrait of Erna and Hanns Heinen (Known as "Night Picture"), Oil, 1931 - The work was looted in 2006 when a burglary broke out in Solingen
  • Lost - Interior view of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, ca.1928
  • Loss of war - Portrait of the Gontermann family, Solingen 1932
  • Missing - Obelisque Place de la Concorde, 1964
  • Missing - Wupper near Unterburg, Solingen, pastel, ca.1928
  • Missing- Prague Bridge, pastel, ca.1928
  • Missing - Portrait of Frieda Enzenroß, ca. 1928
  • Missing - Still life on hunting loto Killenberg, 1921