Sale: 495 / Post War / Contemporary Art, Dec. 07. 2019 in Munich Lot 291

 

291
Wolfgang Mattheuer
Oh Caspar David, 1975.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 112,500 / $ 121,500

(incl. surcharge)
Oh Caspar David. 1975.
Oil on panel.
Michels G 75/6. Signed and dated in lower left as well as verso signed, dated "1975/8" and twice titled, teh second title "Ausgekohlter Tagebau" crossed out. 58.8 x 83 cm (23.1 x 32.6 in).

PROVENANCE: Galerie Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London (verso with the gallery's label).
Galerie Brusberg, Hanover.
Company collection BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH & Co. KG, Hanover (acquired from aforementioned).

EXHIBITION: Wolfgang Mattheuer - Nähe und Horizont. Malerei, Grafik, Zeichnung, Plastik, Altes Museum, Berlin, June 22 - August 21, 1988, cat. no. 61.
Wolfgang Mattheuer. Zwischen Idyll und Katastrophe - Bilder von 1958-1999, Kunstverein Coburg, June 26 - August 22, 1999; Galerie Schwind, Frankfurt a. M., October 31 - December 4, 1999; Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, October 30, 1999 - January 9, 2000 (with illu., no. 46).
Abend, Hügel, Wälder, Liebe. Der andere Mattheuer, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, July 14 - October 14, 2007 (with illu., plate 43).
Realisme uit Leipzig. Drie generaties Leipziger Schule, Drents Museum, Assen, January 25 - May 10, 2009, pp. 54f.
Wolfgang Mattheuer. Bilder als Botschaft - Werkschau zum 90. Geburtstag, Kunsthalle Rostock, July 1 - September 17, 2017, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, October 14 . January 7, 2018, p. 223.

LITERATURE: Heinz Schönemann, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Leipzig 1988 (with illu. on plate 68).
Anja Hertel, Wolfgang Mattheuer. Die politische Landschaft, Marburg 2014 (with illu. on plate 16).




291
Wolfgang Mattheuer
Oh Caspar David, 1975.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 112,500 / $ 121,500

(incl. surcharge)