Conrad Felixmller (1897-1977)

Arbeitsinvaliden

Details

Conrad Felixmller (1897-1977)
Arbeitsinvaliden
signed and dated 'Felixmller 1922' (lower right); titled 'Arbeitsinvaliden' (lower centre); signed again, dated and inscribed 'Felixmller 1922 Invalide Bergarbeiter' (on the reverse)
pen and black ink on paper
25 x 19in. (64.8 x 50.2cm.)
Drawn in 1922

Provenance

Hermes Studio d'Arte, Rome.

Exhibited

Schleswig, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schlo Gottorf Schleswig, Conrad Felixmller, Apr. - June 1990, no. 128, p. 200 (illustrated). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Sept.- Oct. 1990, Braunschweig, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Nov. 1990- Jan. 1991 and Halle, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Feb.- Apr. 1991.

Lot Essay

This painting is closely related to Felixmller's Herbstabend, Klotzsche (lot 180). So fascinated was he by the subject, that he executed it not only in oil but also in drawing and in print. The present drawing has been in the same private collection for sixty years.

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