Red Poppies
Christian Rohlfs (Niendorf/Holstein 1849 - Hagen/Westfalen 1938)
Lot-No. 273
Proceeds : 18.900 €
Tempera, 76 x 54,5 cm, lo. ri. monogr. and dat. CR 20, min. dam., matted and framed under glass. - Provenance: Formerly collection Of Axel and Rosemarie Springer; private collection Schleswig-Holstein. - Important German expressionist painter. R. studied at the Weimar academy under P. Thumann since 1870, developed his style from naturalism to impressionism in his Weimar time. On invitation of K. E. Osthaus he became teacher at the Folkwang university of the arts in 1901. Many of his works were removed from museums as 'degenerate' by the Nazis in 1937. His art was honoured posthumously at the Documenta I in 1955. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Berlin, Munich, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf, Essen (Folkwang-Mus.), Aachen, Hagen, Weimar a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.
Christian Rohlfs: Red Poppies
Christian Rohlfs (Niendorf/Holstein 1849 - Hagen/Westfalen 1938)
Red Poppies
Lot-No. 273
Proceeds : 18.900 €
Tempera, 76 x 54,5 cm, lo. ri. monogr. and dat. CR 20, min. dam., matted and framed under glass. - Provenance: Formerly collection Of Axel and Rosemarie Springer; private collection Schleswig-Holstein. - Important German expressionist painter. R. studied at the Weimar academy under P. Thumann since 1870, developed his style from naturalism to impressionism in his Weimar time. On invitation of K. E. Osthaus he became teacher at the Folkwang university of the arts in 1901. Many of his works were removed from museums as 'degenerate' by the Nazis in 1937. His art was honoured posthumously at the Documenta I in 1955. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Berlin, Munich, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf, Essen (Folkwang-Mus.), Aachen, Hagen, Weimar a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.
