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Hans Thoma
Amor vincit omnia (Liebespaar mit Amor und Tod), 1876.
Oil on structured cardboard, laid on firm cardb...
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 20,880 Sold:
€ 22,860 / $ 26,517 (incl. surcharge)
323
Hans Thoma
Amor vincit omnia (Liebespaar mit Amor und Tod), 1876.
Oil on structured cardboard, laid on firm cardb...
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 20,880 Sold:
€ 22,860 / $ 26,517 (incl. surcharge)
Amor vincit omnia (Liebespaar mit Amor und Tod). 1876.
Oil on structured cardboard, laid on firm cardboard.
Lower right monogrammed and dated. 24.8 x 23.8 cm (9.7 x 9.3 in).
• Intimate motif: Painted when Thoma was engaged to Cella Berteneder before their marriage in 1877.
• The flower painter was Thoma's most important model, further homages to her as the goddess Flora followed.
• Love and Death: programmatic reference to his important “Self-Portrait with Death and Cupid” from 1875 at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
• Works by the artist are in the Alte Nationalgalerie, State Museums Berlin, the Neue Pinakothek, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich and the Galerie Neue Meister, Albertinum, Dresden; the most important and largest Thoma collections are part of Städel Museum, Frankfurt and the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Bad Säckingen.
Private collection Switzerland.
Private collection Baden Württemberg.
LITERATURE: Cf. Henry Thode, Hans Thoma, Stuttgart/Leipzig 1909, p. 81: "Amor und Tod", p. 123: "Tod und Liebe".
Oil on structured cardboard, laid on firm cardboard.
Lower right monogrammed and dated. 24.8 x 23.8 cm (9.7 x 9.3 in).
• Intimate motif: Painted when Thoma was engaged to Cella Berteneder before their marriage in 1877.
• The flower painter was Thoma's most important model, further homages to her as the goddess Flora followed.
• Love and Death: programmatic reference to his important “Self-Portrait with Death and Cupid” from 1875 at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
• Works by the artist are in the Alte Nationalgalerie, State Museums Berlin, the Neue Pinakothek, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich and the Galerie Neue Meister, Albertinum, Dresden; the most important and largest Thoma collections are part of Städel Museum, Frankfurt and the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Bad Säckingen.
Private collection Switzerland.
Private collection Baden Württemberg.
LITERATURE: Cf. Henry Thode, Hans Thoma, Stuttgart/Leipzig 1909, p. 81: "Amor und Tod", p. 123: "Tod und Liebe".
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