Sale: 612 / Evening Sale, Dec. 04. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000869
Raumbeispiel
126000869
Heinrich Campendonk
Sternbild (Sternenbild), 1913.
Gouache over pencil on paper
Estimate:
€ 150,000 - 250,000
$ 174,000 - 290,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000869
Heinrich Campendonk
Sternbild (Sternenbild), 1913.
Gouache over pencil on paper
Estimate:
€ 150,000 - 250,000
$ 174,000 - 290,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Heinrich Campendonk
1889 - 1957
Sternbild (Sternenbild). 1913.
Gouache over pencil on paper.
Signed, dated, and titled in the lower right. Signed, dated and inscribe with the technique “Aquarell" (watercolor) by hand on a label on the reverse side of the backing board. 53.5 x 42.8 cm (21 x 16.8 in), the full sheet. [EH].
The sheet is firmly mounted onto a thin backing board all around the edges.
• Orphist reduction to basic geometric forms in vibrant colors.
• Exhibited at the Galerie “Der Sturm” one year after its creation.
• First owners: Nell and Herwarth Walden—provenance completely documented since then.
• Museum quality—extremely rare in this condition.
PROVENANCE: Nell and Herwarth Walden Collection, Berlin (probably from 1914, from 1915 at the latest).
Nell Walden Collection, Bad Schinznach (until at least 1945).
Galerie Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf.
Collection of Prof. Dr. Kurt Nordmeyer, Essen (acquired from the above in 1963).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (inherited from the above).
EXHIBITION: Campendonk, Oskar Kokoschka, Franz Marc, Gino Severini, Carlo D. Carra, Umberto Boccioni, Jacoba van Heemskerck, Galerie Der Sturm Berlin, 29th Exhibition, late autumn 1914, leaflet no. 7 (urn:nbn:de:bvb:255-dtl -0000002234, accessed Oct. 8, 2026).
Der Sturm—Sammlung Nell Walden aus den Jahren 1912–1920. Gemälde und Zeichnungen alter Meister, Kunsthandwerk aus Privatbesitz, Kunstmuseum Bern, Oct. 1, 1944–March 31, 1945.
Expressionisten, Kubisten, Futuristen. Sammlungen Nell Walden und Dr. Othmar Huber, Kunsthaus Zürich, May 19–June 17, 1945, cat. no. 18 (https://digital.kunsthaus.ch/viewer/image/44374/, accessed Oct. 8, 2026).
münchen und die kunst des 20. jahrhunderts - Der Blaue Reiter, der weg von 1908–1914, Haus der Kunst, Sept./Oct. 1949, organized by the Museums, Fine Arts and Cultural Materials Exchange Section, Cultural Affairs Branch, E.R. Division, p. 25, cat. no. 12 with ill. (with a label on the frame cover).
Der Blaue Reiter 1908–1914. Wegbereiter und Zeitgenossen, Kunsthalle Basel, Jan. 21–Feb. 26, 1950, p. 38, cat. no. 187.
Heinrich Campendonk, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum—Haus Lange, Krefeld, May 22–July 17, 1960, p. 78, cat. no. 9 (with ill.) (with a label on the frame cover).
Heinrich Campendonk, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, July 29–September 4, 1960, no. 6.
Heinrich Campendonk, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Oct. 1960, cat. no. 9 (with a label on the frame cover).
Heinrich Campendonk, Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main, Nov. 1960.
Der Blaue Reiter und sein Kreis, Österreichische Galerie, Vienna, Aug. 2–Sept. 24, 1961, cat. no. 96, with ill. XXIII.
Europäische Kunst 1912. On the 50th Anniversary of the Exhibition of the “Sonderbund of West German Art Lovers and Artists” in Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Sept. 12–Dec. 9, 1962, p. 42, cat. no. Z 26 (with a label on the frame cover).
LITERATURE: Andrea Firmenich, Heinrich Campendonk 1889–1957. Leben und expressionistisches Werk, mit Werkkatalog des malerischen Œuvres, Recklinghausen 1989, CR no. 396 and b/w ill., plate 31.
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Herwarth Walden (ed.), Sammlung Walden. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Galerie der Sturm. Third Catalog, November 1915, p. 3.
Herwarth Walden (ed.), Sammlung Walden. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Galerie der Sturm. Fifth Catalog, April 1917, No. 29.
Herwarth Walden (ed.), Sammlung Walden. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Galerie der Sturm. Sixth Catalog, May 1917, No. 29.
Herwarth Walden (ed.), Sammlung Walden. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Galerie der Sturm. Seventh Catalog, March 1919, No. 41.
Herwarth Walden (ed.), Sammlung Walden. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Galerie der Sturm. Eighth Catalog, October 1919, No. 41.
Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 95th Auction, Modern Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, June 5–6, 1959, lot 88 (ill. plate 17).
“With their formal rigor, these works almost seem to anticipate Constructivism, yet they are consistently developed from the Cubist forms of his earlier works.”
Andrea Firmenich on the large-format gouaches from 1913, quoted from: CR 1989, p. 107.
1889 - 1957
Sternbild (Sternenbild). 1913.
Gouache over pencil on paper.
Signed, dated, and titled in the lower right. Signed, dated and inscribe with the technique “Aquarell" (watercolor) by hand on a label on the reverse side of the backing board. 53.5 x 42.8 cm (21 x 16.8 in), the full sheet. [EH].
The sheet is firmly mounted onto a thin backing board all around the edges.
• Orphist reduction to basic geometric forms in vibrant colors.
• Exhibited at the Galerie “Der Sturm” one year after its creation.
• First owners: Nell and Herwarth Walden—provenance completely documented since then.
• Museum quality—extremely rare in this condition.
PROVENANCE: Nell and Herwarth Walden Collection, Berlin (probably from 1914, from 1915 at the latest).
Nell Walden Collection, Bad Schinznach (until at least 1945).
Galerie Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf.
Collection of Prof. Dr. Kurt Nordmeyer, Essen (acquired from the above in 1963).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (inherited from the above).
EXHIBITION: Campendonk, Oskar Kokoschka, Franz Marc, Gino Severini, Carlo D. Carra, Umberto Boccioni, Jacoba van Heemskerck, Galerie Der Sturm Berlin, 29th Exhibition, late autumn 1914, leaflet no. 7 (urn:nbn:de:bvb:255-dtl -0000002234, accessed Oct. 8, 2026).
Der Sturm—Sammlung Nell Walden aus den Jahren 1912–1920. Gemälde und Zeichnungen alter Meister, Kunsthandwerk aus Privatbesitz, Kunstmuseum Bern, Oct. 1, 1944–March 31, 1945.
Expressionisten, Kubisten, Futuristen. Sammlungen Nell Walden und Dr. Othmar Huber, Kunsthaus Zürich, May 19–June 17, 1945, cat. no. 18 (https://digital.kunsthaus.ch/viewer/image/44374/, accessed Oct. 8, 2026).
münchen und die kunst des 20. jahrhunderts - Der Blaue Reiter, der weg von 1908–1914, Haus der Kunst, Sept./Oct. 1949, organized by the Museums, Fine Arts and Cultural Materials Exchange Section, Cultural Affairs Branch, E.R. Division, p. 25, cat. no. 12 with ill. (with a label on the frame cover).
Der Blaue Reiter 1908–1914. Wegbereiter und Zeitgenossen, Kunsthalle Basel, Jan. 21–Feb. 26, 1950, p. 38, cat. no. 187.
Heinrich Campendonk, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum—Haus Lange, Krefeld, May 22–July 17, 1960, p. 78, cat. no. 9 (with ill.) (with a label on the frame cover).
Heinrich Campendonk, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, July 29–September 4, 1960, no. 6.
Heinrich Campendonk, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Oct. 1960, cat. no. 9 (with a label on the frame cover).
Heinrich Campendonk, Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main, Nov. 1960.
Der Blaue Reiter und sein Kreis, Österreichische Galerie, Vienna, Aug. 2–Sept. 24, 1961, cat. no. 96, with ill. XXIII.
Europäische Kunst 1912. On the 50th Anniversary of the Exhibition of the “Sonderbund of West German Art Lovers and Artists” in Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Sept. 12–Dec. 9, 1962, p. 42, cat. no. Z 26 (with a label on the frame cover).
LITERATURE: Andrea Firmenich, Heinrich Campendonk 1889–1957. Leben und expressionistisches Werk, mit Werkkatalog des malerischen Œuvres, Recklinghausen 1989, CR no. 396 and b/w ill., plate 31.
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Herwarth Walden (ed.), Sammlung Walden. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Galerie der Sturm. Third Catalog, November 1915, p. 3.
Herwarth Walden (ed.), Sammlung Walden. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Galerie der Sturm. Fifth Catalog, April 1917, No. 29.
Herwarth Walden (ed.), Sammlung Walden. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Galerie der Sturm. Sixth Catalog, May 1917, No. 29.
Herwarth Walden (ed.), Sammlung Walden. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Galerie der Sturm. Seventh Catalog, March 1919, No. 41.
Herwarth Walden (ed.), Sammlung Walden. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Galerie der Sturm. Eighth Catalog, October 1919, No. 41.
Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 95th Auction, Modern Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, June 5–6, 1959, lot 88 (ill. plate 17).
“With their formal rigor, these works almost seem to anticipate Constructivism, yet they are consistently developed from the Cubist forms of his earlier works.”
Andrea Firmenich on the large-format gouaches from 1913, quoted from: CR 1989, p. 107.
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