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Adolf Hölzel

Hölzel

1853 Olmütz/Mähren
1934 Stuttgart

Adolf Hölzel was born the son of a book trader and lithographer in the Moravian town of Ohlmütz on 13 May 1853. He was raised to participate in his father's business when he was still very young. In 1868 he began an apprenticeship as a typesetter in Gotha and regularly took lessons in drawing and painting on the side. From 1872 to 1873 he attended the academy of Vienna as an extraordinary pupil; subsequently he completed a one-year military service as a volunteer and even considered a career as an officer after passing the officer's exam. When he finally decided in favour of painting, though against his father's will, Hölzel went to Munich in order to continue his art studies at the local academy. In 1888 he moved from Munich to Dachau, where he became the head of the artistic community "Neu-Dachau", the school for painters around Fritz von Uhde, which predominantly worked in the impressionistic style. In Dachau, Hölzel taught the future German Expressionist Emil Nolde for a short period of time. In 1906 Hölzel was called to the academy of Stuttgart; there he held a professor's chair for painting until 1918. The early stage of Hölzel's style was obliged to an impressionistic style, by way of which he gradually got to decorative black-and-white configurations, which used form and not colour or ductus to convey inner experiences. On this basis he developed non-representational, two-dimensional colour-studies with spirals and circles penetrating each other. Hölzel also wrote theoretical papers, which had an effect on the next generation of artists: particularly Johannes Itten and Oskar Schlemmer, two future Bauhaus members, examined Hölzel's papers. At an exhibition in Stuttgart in 1917/18 he was presented to the public together with Johannes Itten, Oskar Schlemmer, Willi Baumeister and Ida Kerkovius under the title "Hölzel und sein Kreis". In the 1920s his series of pastels came into existence to which the artist mainly attended during his last ten years beside glass windows for sacral and secular architecture. In 1934 Hölzel, one of the most important precursor of modern art, died at the age of 81 in Stuttgart.

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Hölzel, Adolf

Adolf Hölzel - Figuren in großer Landschaft

Sale 392 - June 09, 12
Lot 67 - in 24 days
Pastel 1925
20,000 EUR / 26,200 $
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Adolf Hölzel - Anbetung der Könige

Sale 389 - April 27, 12
Lot 437
Colored crayon drawing 1930
12,000 EUR / 15,720 $
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Adolf Hölzel - Abstrakte Komposition (Figuren in Ovalen)

Sale 392 - June 09, 12
Lot 69 - in 24 days
Pastel 1928
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Adolf Hölzel - Anbetung des heiligen Kindes

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Pencil drawing 1922
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Adolf Hölzel - 2 Blätter: Figürliche Szenen

Sale 389 - April 27, 12
Lot 435
Pencil drawing 1920
1,000 EUR / 1,310 $
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Adolf Hölzel - Landschaftskomposition mit kunsttheoretischen Anmerkungen

Sale 389 - April 27, 12
Lot 433
Chalks 1910
1,000 EUR / 1,310 $
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Adolf Hölzel - Häusergruppe bei La Panne

Sale 389 - April 27, 12
Lot 432
India ink drawing 1913
1,000 EUR / 1,310 $
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Adolf Hölzel - Ohne Titel

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Adolf Hölzel - Komposition in Rot, Blau und Gelb

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Lot 199
Pastel 1930
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Adolf Hölzel - Anbetung

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Lot 171
Pastel 1928
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