Conversation
Karl Ballmer (Aarau/Schweiz 1891 - Lamone/Lugano 1958)
Lot-No. 36
Ca. 1932. Oil/canvas. 120 x 75 cm. Lo. ri. monogr. KB, on the reverse type-written label 'Karl Ballmer Das Gespräch Hamb.'. - Expertise: We are grateful to Beat Wismer for kindly confirming the authenticity by photos. - Literature: Cf.: 'Eine Revolution des Formgefühls'. Karl Ballmer - Richard Haizmann - Rolf Nesch in Hamburg, exh. cat. Hamburger Kunsthalle 2005, p. 34. - Provenance: From the property of the artist's wife, Katharina van Cleef. - Swiss painter and draughtsman. B. studied at the Basel Kunstschule under A. Mayer, 1910-12 at the Munich academy under A. Jank, thereafter in the studio of C. Amiet in Oschwand. In 1917 he met R. Steiner and worked in the construction of the first Goetheaneum since 1918. Subsequently he studied philosophy a. anthropology in Munich, Stuttgart and Berlin. He settled in Hamburg in 1923 and edited the Rudolf-Steiner-Blätter before joining the Hamburg secession in 1931. He soon made friends with R. Nesch, K. Kluth and W. Grimm. As a consequence of Nazi discrimination - some of his works were seized as 'degenerate' from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe - he returned to Switzerland wit his wife in 1940. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Aarau. Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, Gessner: K.B. - Maler u. Denker, Wismer: K. B.1891-1958 a. others.
Karl Ballmer: Conversation
Karl Ballmer (Aarau/Schweiz 1891 - Lamone/Lugano 1958)
Conversation
Lot-No. 36
Ca. 1932. Oil/canvas. 120 x 75 cm. Lo. ri. monogr. KB, on the reverse type-written label 'Karl Ballmer Das Gespräch Hamb.'. - Expertise: We are grateful to Beat Wismer for kindly confirming the authenticity by photos. - Literature: Cf.: 'Eine Revolution des Formgefühls'. Karl Ballmer - Richard Haizmann - Rolf Nesch in Hamburg, exh. cat. Hamburger Kunsthalle 2005, p. 34. - Provenance: From the property of the artist's wife, Katharina van Cleef. - Swiss painter and draughtsman. B. studied at the Basel Kunstschule under A. Mayer, 1910-12 at the Munich academy under A. Jank, thereafter in the studio of C. Amiet in Oschwand. In 1917 he met R. Steiner and worked in the construction of the first Goetheaneum since 1918. Subsequently he studied philosophy a. anthropology in Munich, Stuttgart and Berlin. He settled in Hamburg in 1923 and edited the Rudolf-Steiner-Blätter before joining the Hamburg secession in 1931. He soon made friends with R. Nesch, K. Kluth and W. Grimm. As a consequence of Nazi discrimination - some of his works were seized as 'degenerate' from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe - he returned to Switzerland wit his wife in 1940. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Aarau. Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, Gessner: K.B. - Maler u. Denker, Wismer: K. B.1891-1958 a. others.
