King and Beggar
Christian Rohlfs (Niendorf/Holstein 1849 - Hagen/Westfalen 1938)
Lot-No. 287
Proceeds : 900 €
Gouache. 18 x 30,5 cm. Unframed. Tears to the margins. As an extra: Drawing of a Rider on an envelope adressed to Karl Ernst Osthaus, stamped 17.03.07, 13 x 16 cm. - Provenance: Karl Ernst Osthaus, Hagen; his son Eberhard Osthaus, Worpswede; thence by descent. - 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: King and Beggar
Christian Rohlfs (Niendorf/Holstein 1849 - Hagen/Westfalen 1938)
King and Beggar
Lot-No. 287
Proceeds : 900 €
Gouache. 18 x 30,5 cm. Unframed. Tears to the margins. As an extra: Drawing of a Rider on an envelope adressed to Karl Ernst Osthaus, stamped 17.03.07, 13 x 16 cm. - Provenance: Karl Ernst Osthaus, Hagen; his son Eberhard Osthaus, Worpswede; thence by descent. - 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.
