Kopf des Dichters Iwar von Lücken

Details

OTTO DIX (1891-1969)
Kopf des Dichters Iwar von Lücken
signed DIX (lower right)
gouache and pencil on paper laid down on card
41,6 x 25,7 cm. (16 3⁄8 x 10 1⁄8 in.)
Executed circa 1925-1926

Provenance

Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 8 December 1970, lot 191.
Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 23 June 1982, lot 166.
Galerie Michael Hasenclever, Munich; acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above in November 1982; then by descent to the present owners.

Literature

U. Lorenz, Otto Dix - Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, vol. III, Bonn, 2002, no. NSk 2.6.5, p. 1011 (ill.; with incorrect medium).

Exhibited

Ingelheim am Rhein, Museum Altes Rathaus, Der Traum von einer neuen Welt - Berlin 1910-1933, April - June 1989.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers – Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, March 1999 - October 2000, pp. 71 (ill.) & 106 (titled 'Iwar von Lücken' and dated '1926').

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Lot Essay

The important final oil painting for which this work served as a study, Der Dichter Iwar von Lücken (1926), was also previously owned by Klaus Hegewisch. Iwar von Lücken was a Baltic-German poet whom Otto Dix portrayed in the 'New Objectivity' style characteristic of the Weimar period. The life-size painting was sold by Klaus Hegewisch to the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, where it is held today.

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