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Georg Schrimpf
Häkelnde, 1924.
Oil on canvas
Post auction sale: € 70,000 / $ 81,200
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Georg Schrimpf
1889 - 1938

Häkelnde. 1924.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. 63 x 53 cm (24.8 x 20.8 in). [KA].


• Schrimpf's figure paintings from the 1920s are among the most important works in his oeuvre.
• A fusion of soft colors and reduced formal language.
• The window sections refer to Romantic, Biedermeier, and Renaissance portrait traditions, in which the connection between figure and landscape emphasizes the tension between the individual and the environment.
Georg Schrimpf is one of the most important representatives of New Objectivity.
• Similar paintings are in the collections of the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Kunsthalle Mannheim, and the Lenbachhaus Munich.
• Most recently part of an important private collection in Berlin
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PROVENANCE: Private collection, northern Germany.
Private ownership (acquired from the above in 1981).
Private collection, Berlin (since 2014: Hauswedell & Nolte).

EXHIBITION: Georg Schrimpf und Maria Uhden. Leben und Werk, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, May 11–June 16, 1985; Villa Stuck, Munich, 1985; Städtische Galerie, Albstadt, 1985/86 (with illustrations, pp. 127 and 217).

LITERATURE: Karl-Ludwig Hofmann and Christmut Praeger, Georg Schrimpf and Maria Uhden. Leben und Werk, Berlin 1985, CR no. 1924/8 (illustrated).
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Hauswedell & Nolte, 457th auction, Modern Art Part I, December 11, 2014, lot 51 (illustrated).

“What I want to achieve with my paintings simply all about life itself [..]. So I strive for clarity and simplicity as the essential features, believing that this is how I can get closer to the inner value of things.”

Georg Schrimpf, 1932, quoted from: Georg Schrimpf und Maria Uhden. Leben und Werk, Berlin 1985, p. 162.




 

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