Sale: 517 / Modern Art II, June 18. 2021 in Munich Lot 192

 

192
Adolf Hölzel
Ohne Titel, Um 1930.
Pastel
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400
Sold:
€ 26,250 / $ 28,087

(incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel. Um 1930.
Pastel.
With the estate stamp on a label on the mount (Lugt 1258 f). There signed by Julie Hoelzel. On flock coated paper. 40.3 x 59 cm (15.8 x 23.2 in), the full sheet. [CH].

• Particularly large work with a painting-like appearance and an exeptional radiance.
• From the artist's estate.
• Other pastels from these days are in possession of, among others, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, and the Sprengel Museum Hannover.
• Adolf Hölzel held a post as professor for painting at the Stuttgart Academy between 1906 and 1918.
• In later years the generation of Bauhaus artists like Johannes Itten (1888-1967) and Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) examined Hölzel's writings
.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate
Private collection Stuttgart.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (inherited from the above).




192
Adolf Hölzel
Ohne Titel, Um 1930.
Pastel
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400
Sold:
€ 26,250 / $ 28,087

(incl. surcharge)