Lot 258
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258
Alexander Kanoldt
Häuser, 1910.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 23,600 Sold:
€ 33,020 / $ 38,963 (incl. surcharge)
Häuser. 1910.
Oil on cardboard.
Barely legibly inscribed “732 mattweiß / bestimmt (?) Dienstag Abend's / Franz Josef Str. 36/4 / Canold” on the reverse by a hand other than the artist's. 36.7 x 50 cm (14.4 x 19.6 in).
[AR].
• Rediscovered early architectural view of Munich by Alexander Kanoldt.
• Painted near Nikolaiplatz, where the artist lived from 1910-1911.
• Reduced color and form with a lively, expressive coloring.
• Formerly owned by Otto Fischer, then director of the Kunstmuseum Basel.
• In family ownership for several generations.
We are grateful to Dr. Michael Koch for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Otto Fischer Collection, Basel.
Katharina Fischer (by inheritance from the above).
Private collection, Southern Germany (by inheritance from the above).
Family-owned ever since.
EXHIBITION: Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart (with the label on the reverse, here titled "Häuser").
"Kanoldt's last things, which I saw here the other day, already have these large means – pure cubism. I was frightened at first, and then I was delighted by the courage and the fabulous consistency of these people."
Franz Marc to August Macke, December 28, 1910, quoted from: Andreas Hühnecke (ed.): Der Blaue Reiter. Documents of an intellectual movement, Leipzig 1986.
Oil on cardboard.
Barely legibly inscribed “732 mattweiß / bestimmt (?) Dienstag Abend's / Franz Josef Str. 36/4 / Canold” on the reverse by a hand other than the artist's. 36.7 x 50 cm (14.4 x 19.6 in).
[AR].
• Rediscovered early architectural view of Munich by Alexander Kanoldt.
• Painted near Nikolaiplatz, where the artist lived from 1910-1911.
• Reduced color and form with a lively, expressive coloring.
• Formerly owned by Otto Fischer, then director of the Kunstmuseum Basel.
• In family ownership for several generations.
We are grateful to Dr. Michael Koch for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Otto Fischer Collection, Basel.
Katharina Fischer (by inheritance from the above).
Private collection, Southern Germany (by inheritance from the above).
Family-owned ever since.
EXHIBITION: Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart (with the label on the reverse, here titled "Häuser").
"Kanoldt's last things, which I saw here the other day, already have these large means – pure cubism. I was frightened at first, and then I was delighted by the courage and the fabulous consistency of these people."
Franz Marc to August Macke, December 28, 1910, quoted from: Andreas Hühnecke (ed.): Der Blaue Reiter. Documents of an intellectual movement, Leipzig 1986.
258
Alexander Kanoldt
Häuser, 1910.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 23,600 Sold:
€ 33,020 / $ 38,963 (incl. surcharge)
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