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Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977)
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Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977)

Arbeitsinvaliden

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Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977)
Arbeitsinvaliden
signed and dated 'Felixmuüller 1922' (lower right); titled 'Arbeitsinvaliden-' (lower centre); signed again, dated and inscribed 'Felixmüller 1922 Invalide Bergarbeiter' (on the reverse)
pen and black ink on paper
Executed in 1922
Provenance
The artist, from whom acquired by a private German collector (until 1999); sale, Christie's, London, 7 October 1999, lot 183.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Schleswig, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloß Gottorf Schleswig, Conrad Felixmüller, April - June 1990, no. 128, p. 200 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum, September - October 1990; Braunschweig, Kunstverein, November 1990 - January 1991 and Halle, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, February - April 1991.
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Lot Essay

Conrad Felixmüller had great interest in the poor and the depiction of their living conditions. In the present work, as well as in the oil painting Herbstabend Klotzsche (S 267, Private collection; fig. 1), the artist cast his figures against Klotzsche, a Dresden suburb where he was living at the time, and which epitomised the harshness of industrialised Germany in the 1920s.

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