Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977)

Property from the Estate of Frau Maria von Haugk-Crusius Sold on behalf of the Tierschutzverein, Hamburg

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Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977)

Akt und Zeichner

signed and dated upper right C. Felixmüller 33, signed and dated again on the stretcher Conrad Felixmüller 1933, oil on canvas
35 5/8 x 43½in. (90.5 x 110.5cm.)

Painted in 1933

Provenance

Frau Maria von Haugk-Crusius, Leipzig, by whom acquired in the summer of 1933
Staatliches Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg (on loan)

Literature

The Artist' Handlist, no. 562
H. Heinz, Conrad Felixmüller Gemälde, Leipzig, 1959 (illustrated in colour pl. 3)
H. Heinz, Maler und Werk Conrad Felixmüller, Dresden, 1978 (illustrated in colour p. 10)
D. Gleisberg, Conrad Felixmüller, Leben und Werk, Dresden, 1982 (illustrated in colour p. 134)

Exhibited

Jena und Gera, Malerei aus Freude - Malerei als Anklage, 1948, no. 98
Halle, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Der realistische Maler Conrad Felixmüller, Feb.-May 1949, no. 11 (illustrated p. 11)
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister Albertinum, Conrad Felixmüller, June-Sept. 1975, no. 47 (illustrated pl. 16). This exhibition later travelled to Rostock, Kunsthalle, Sept.-Nov. 1975; and Altes Museum, Berlin, Spring 1976
Schleswig-Holstein, Landesmuseum, Conrad Felixmüller, 1990, no. 43 (illustrated in colour p. 139). This exhibition later travelled to Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum; Braunschweig, Kunstverein; and Halle, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg

Lot Essay

Akt und Zeichner depicts Felixmüller in his studio with his wife Londa serving as his model. The painting is a particularly fine example of the many moody Akt und Zeichner studies Felixmüller painted in the 1930s. Like Picasso's atelier pictures, these paintings reach far beyond academic studies of the nude. The best of them are full of charm and sensitivity capturing both the relationship between the artist and his model and Felixmüllers close relationship with his wife.

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