Sale: 513 / Post War / Contemporary Art II, Dec. 11. 2020 in Munich Lot 50

 

50
Max Ackermann
Ohne Titel, 1972.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 18,750 / $ 20,250

(incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel. 1972.
Oil on canvas.
Verso of the stretcher signed, dated "29.IV.72-10.V.72" and twice inscribed "73". 120 x 100.5 cm (47.2 x 39.5 in). [CH].

• Max Ackermann is one of the German pioneers of abstraction to which he committed fully as of the 1950s.
• In the 1930s he was among the "defamed artists", while he rose to fame in post-war abstraction.
• "Max Ackermann's painting went from Critical Realism to Lyrical Abstraction."
(beide Zitate: Welt online).
• Other works by the artist are at, among others, the Folkwang Museum, Essen, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main, and the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg.




50
Max Ackermann
Ohne Titel, 1972.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 18,750 / $ 20,250

(incl. surcharge)