Sale: 554 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 08. 2024 in Munich Lot 123001507


123001507
Albert Mueller
Sonnenaufgang, 1917.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 10,000 - 15,000

 
$ 10,700 - 16,050

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Sonnenaufgang. 1917.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, titled and inscribed on a label on the reverse. 71.5 x 63 cm (28.1 x 24.8 in).
[SM].

• Albert Mueller is one of the most important artists in the Stuttgart avant-garde circle.
• In the year this work was created, he was a student of Adolf Hölzel and Johannes Itten.
• Stylistic parallels to the design principles of Johannes Itten can be seen here, particularly in the prismatic treatment of the forms
.

PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist (until 1990).
Rolf Deyhle Collection, Stuttgart.
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Hamburg/Bielefeld.

EXHIBITION: (Selection): Vom Anspruch der Farbe. Adolf Hölzel und seine Wirkung, Kunststiftung Hohenkarpfen e.V. and Kunstverein Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg, Hausen ob Verena, 1989, cat. no. 55.
Albert Mueller. 1884 Schwandorf-1963 Bremen. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Collagen, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Museum des Landkreises Waldshut, Schloss Bonndorf, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Schloss Dätzingen, 1990, cat. no. 44.
Sammlung Bunte. Positionen der klassischen Moderne, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, February 25 - May 28, 2007; Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie, Quedlinburg, December 1, 2007 - March 2, 2008; Städtische Galerie, Böblingen, March 16 - June 29, 2008; August Macke Haus, Bonn, May 13 - 17, 2009. May 2-17, 2009; Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg, May 29 - September 6, 2009; Ernst Barlach Foundation, Güstrow, September 27, 2009 - January 17, 2010; Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Apolda, January 24 - April 5, 2010.
Wege in die Klassische Moderne. Sammlung Bunte, Schloss Achberg, April 17 - July 25, 2010; Neues Schloss Kißlegg, April 18 - July 18, 2010.
Das Glück in der Kunst. Expressionismus und Abstraktion um 1914. Sammlung Bunte, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, March 21 - August 3, 2014 (illu. on p. 135).
Herman Stenner und seine Zeit: “.. dies Streben nach dem ganz Grossen etwas in der Kunst ..”, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, January 20 - August 18, 2019, cat. no. 120.
Hölle und Paradies. Deutscher Expressionismus um 1918, Städtisches Museum, Engen, March 3 - July 5, 2020; Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus, August 30, 2020 - January 17, 2021, cat. no. 35, p. 75.

LITERATURE: Kuno Schlichtenmaier, Alexander Klee, Albert Mueller. Leben und Werk, Stuttgart 1992, p. 43.
Grisebach, Berlin, auction on May 31, 2003, lot 218.




123001507
Albert Mueller
Sonnenaufgang, 1917.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 10,000 - 15,000

 
$ 10,700 - 16,050

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.