Lot 122 | Albert Bloch | Gebirgstunnel

BLOCH, ALBERT
1882 St. Louis/Missouri - 1961 Lawrence/Kansas

Title: Gebirgstunnel.
Date: 1916.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 89 x 59,5cm.
Notation: Monogrammed and dated lower right: AB (ligated) 1916.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.

Provenance:
- Gordon M. McCouch (1920 directly from the artist; label)
- Private collection, Lausanne (1983)
- Gertrude Blendinger Collection (1998)
- Private collection, Switzerland
- Christie's London, 7244th auction, 21st June 2006, lot 335 (label)
- Kunsthaus Lempertz, 905th auction, 2nd June 2007, lot 529 (label)
- Villa Grisebach Berlin, 281st auction, 30th November 2017, lot 20 (label)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, 1917
- Galerie Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt, 1917
- Kunsthaus Das Reich, Munich, 1918
- Daniel Gallery, New York 1921
- Museo Cantonale d'Arte Moderna, Lugano 1987
- Museo Communale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona 1992-1996; on loan from a private collection (label)
- Frey-Näpflin Foundation, Stans 2006 (label)

Literature:
- Hoberg, Annegret/Adams, Henry (eds.): Albert Bloch - Ein amerikanischer Blauer Reiter, Munich 1997, p. 176
- Exhib. cat. Albert Bloch, Harald Kaufmann, Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin 1917, cat. no. 15
- Exhib. cat. Albert Bloch, Munich: A Selection of Paintings from the Last Five Years 1913-1918, Kunsthaus Das Reich, Munich 1918, cat. no. 8 (''Gebirgstunnel'')
- Exhib. cat. Exhibition of Paintings by Albert Bloch, Daniel Gallery, New York 1921, cat. no. 11
- Exhib. cat. Il Ticino nella pittura europea, Museo Cantonale d'Arte Moderna, Lugano 1987, p. 120, ill.
- Exhib. cat. So weit das Auge reicht - Landschaftsbilder aus vier Jahrhunderten, Frey-Näpflin-Stiftung, Stans 2005, p. 19, ill.

- Bloch participated as the "amerikanische Stimme" in the first and second exhibitions of "Blauen Reiter" (1911 and 1912).
- He was closely associated with Herwarth Walden and his Sturm gallery, which exhibited his work on several occasions.
- "Gebirgstunnel" has an impressive exhibition history