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Wolfgang Mattheuer
Nach der Party, 1968.
Oil on fibreboard
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 34,800 Sold:
€ 116,100 / $ 134,676 (incl. surcharge)
171
Wolfgang Mattheuer
Nach der Party, 1968.
Oil on fibreboard
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 34,800 Sold:
€ 116,100 / $ 134,676 (incl. surcharge)
Wolfgang Mattheuer
1927 - 2004
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).
1927 - 2004
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).
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