Sale: 601 / Day Sale, Dec. 06. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125000584
Lot 125000584 
Raumbeispiel
125000584
Wolfgang Mattheuer
Nach der Party, 1968.
Oil on fibreboard
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Nach der Party. 1968.
Oil on fibreboard.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, dated and titled (in two colors) on the reverse. 75.3 x 62.3 cm (29.6 x 24.5 in).
Other works from the collection of Prof. Dr. Manfred Pohlen and Dr. Margarethe Bautz-Holzherr, Marburg, will be offered in a special online sale from February 15 to March 15, 2026. All proceeds will go to the Pohlen-Bautz-Holzherr Foundation. [CH].
• Mattheuer plays with light and shadow, colors, shapes, and perspective on a complex narrative level.
• One year earlier, the artist also used the motif in a woodcut of the same name (Gleisberg/Seyde 147 IV + Koch/Grimm 188-3).
• In the mid-1960s, Mattheuer had his breakthrough: in 1965, the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg in Halle was the first museum to acquire one of his works.
• Mattheuer is a leading representative of the Leipzig School.
PROVENANCE: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pohlen and Dr. Margarethe Bautz-Holzherr Collection, Marburg.
LITERATURE: Stefanie Michels (ed.), Wolfgang Mattheuer. Bilder als Botschaft. Catalogue raisonné of paintings 1950-2003, Leipzig/Frankfurt a. Main/Berlin 2017, p. 152, CR-no. G 68/3 (illustrated).
Oil on fibreboard.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, dated and titled (in two colors) on the reverse. 75.3 x 62.3 cm (29.6 x 24.5 in).
Other works from the collection of Prof. Dr. Manfred Pohlen and Dr. Margarethe Bautz-Holzherr, Marburg, will be offered in a special online sale from February 15 to March 15, 2026. All proceeds will go to the Pohlen-Bautz-Holzherr Foundation. [CH].
• Mattheuer plays with light and shadow, colors, shapes, and perspective on a complex narrative level.
• One year earlier, the artist also used the motif in a woodcut of the same name (Gleisberg/Seyde 147 IV + Koch/Grimm 188-3).
• In the mid-1960s, Mattheuer had his breakthrough: in 1965, the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg in Halle was the first museum to acquire one of his works.
• Mattheuer is a leading representative of the Leipzig School.
PROVENANCE: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pohlen and Dr. Margarethe Bautz-Holzherr Collection, Marburg.
LITERATURE: Stefanie Michels (ed.), Wolfgang Mattheuer. Bilder als Botschaft. Catalogue raisonné of paintings 1950-2003, Leipzig/Frankfurt a. Main/Berlin 2017, p. 152, CR-no. G 68/3 (illustrated).
125000584
Wolfgang Mattheuer
Nach der Party, 1968.
Oil on fibreboard
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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