Sale: 611 / Day Sale, Dec. 05. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000611
Raumbeispiel
126000611
Christian Rohlfs
Föhren, 1904.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 46,400 - 69,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000611
Christian Rohlfs
Föhren, 1904.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 46,400 - 69,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Christian Rohlfs
1849 - 1938
Föhren. 1904.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower right. 73.4 x 93.7 cm (28.8 x 36.8 in).
[AR].
• A leap into Modernism: a striking testament to Rohlfs’s groundbreaking artistic innovation around 1900.
• With a liberated brushstroke and dynamic style, he imbues the landscape with an extraordinary lightness and expressive power.
• In the year this work was created, he became acquainted with the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.
• Works from this creative period and of this quality are among the artist’s most sought-after pieces on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
PROVENANCE: Karl Ernst Osthaus Collection, Hagen.
Museum Folkwang, Essen (acquired through purchase of the Osthaus Collection in 1922).
State property (confiscated from the above in the course of the “Degenerate Art” campaign on August 25, 1937; EK no. 3667).
Schönhausen Palace Depot, Berlin (August 1938–1939, storage of artworks “suitable for international markets”)
Bernhard A. Böhmer, Güstrow (on consignment from the above in 1939)
Private collection, Southern Germany.
LITERATURE: Paul Vogt, Christian Rohlfs. Oeuvre-Katalog der Gemälde, Recklinghausen 1978, CR no. 344 (with black-and-white illustration and full-page black-and-white illustration on p. 61).
1849 - 1938
Föhren. 1904.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower right. 73.4 x 93.7 cm (28.8 x 36.8 in).
[AR].
• A leap into Modernism: a striking testament to Rohlfs’s groundbreaking artistic innovation around 1900.
• With a liberated brushstroke and dynamic style, he imbues the landscape with an extraordinary lightness and expressive power.
• In the year this work was created, he became acquainted with the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.
• Works from this creative period and of this quality are among the artist’s most sought-after pieces on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
PROVENANCE: Karl Ernst Osthaus Collection, Hagen.
Museum Folkwang, Essen (acquired through purchase of the Osthaus Collection in 1922).
State property (confiscated from the above in the course of the “Degenerate Art” campaign on August 25, 1937; EK no. 3667).
Schönhausen Palace Depot, Berlin (August 1938–1939, storage of artworks “suitable for international markets”)
Bernhard A. Böhmer, Güstrow (on consignment from the above in 1939)
Private collection, Southern Germany.
LITERATURE: Paul Vogt, Christian Rohlfs. Oeuvre-Katalog der Gemälde, Recklinghausen 1978, CR no. 344 (with black-and-white illustration and full-page black-and-white illustration on p. 61).
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