276
Georg Schrimpf
Häkelnde, 1924.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 70,000 / $ 81,200
Sold:
€ 45,150 / $ 52,374

(incl. surcharge)
276
Georg Schrimpf
Häkelnde, 1924.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 70,000 / $ 81,200
Sold:
€ 45,150 / $ 52,374

(incl. surcharge)
 

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
.

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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