Sale: 552 / Collection Bunte, Dec. 09. 2023 in Munich Lot 534

 

534
Conrad Felixmüller
Meine Schwester Hanna (Mädchenbildnis) / Bildnis Frau Minni Steinhardt, 1914/1929.
Oil on canvas (painted on both sides)
Estimate:
€ 60,000 / $ 66,000
Sold:
€ 76,200 / $ 83,820

(incl. surcharge)
Meine Schwester Hanna (Mädchenbildnis) / Bildnis Frau Minni Steinhardt. 1914/1929.
Oil on canvas (painted on both sides).
Each signed and dated (front "Felix Müller 1914" in lower right, reverse "C. Felixmüller 1929" in upper left). 69 x 64.5 cm (27.1 x 25.3 in).
The portrayed person on the reverse is Minni Steinhardt, wife of the artist Jakob Steinhardt. [EH].
• The two sides of the canvas testify to the develpoment from an expressive portrait style to New Objectivity.
• Hanna, C. Felixmüller's sister, later married Peter August Böckstiegel.
• Works by Conrad Felixmüller are at, among others, the Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, the Buchheim Collection, Feldafing, and the Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Conrad Felixmüller
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Bielefeld.

EXHIBITION: Exhibitions of front side .
Conrad Felixmüller 1897-1977, 88. Ausstellung INTERVERSA Gesellschaft für Beteiligung mbH, Hamburg, May 7 - June 12, 1981.cat. no. 1 (here titled: Mädchenbildnis)
Conrad Felixmüller. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, March - April 1984, cat. no. 2, fig.
Conrad Felixmüller. His Dresden Years, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv 1995, cat. no. 3

Exhibition of rear side:
Conrad Felixmüller. Sonderausstellung, Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin 1929, (folding leaf) no number.

LITERATURE: Titus Felixmüller, Conrad Felixmüller. Monographie und Werkverzeichnist der Gemälde, Cologne 1996, no. 20, p. 215 fig. and no. 436, p. 265 fig.

David Riedel, Conrad Felixmüller, Munich 2021, fig. p.15.
Peter August Böckstiegel. Expressionismus. Werke aus der Sammlung Bunte, Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll, September 9 - October 23, 2022; Schloss Evenburg, Leer, October 31, 2022 - January 10, 2023, fig. p. 8.




534
Conrad Felixmüller
Meine Schwester Hanna (Mädchenbildnis) / Bildnis Frau Minni Steinhardt, 1914/1929.
Oil on canvas (painted on both sides)
Estimate:
€ 60,000 / $ 66,000
Sold:
€ 76,200 / $ 83,820

(incl. surcharge)