Evening Sale, Modern, Post War & Contemporary
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Lot 155 | Johannes Molzahn | "Spacial Strata"
Estimate
25.000
- 30.000
€
D F
Result:
(incl. premium)
31.680 €
MOLZAHN, JOHANNES
1892 Duisburg - 1965 Munich
Title: "Spacial Strata".
Date: 1944.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 86.5 x 102cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower centre: Johs. Molzahn 44. Verso inscribed and titled lower left: JOHANNES MOLZAHN 1944, CHICAGO SPACIAL STRATA Spacial strata. Verso numbered upper left: 27.A.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
The work is listed in the fragmentary inventory of paintings by Loretto Molzahn under number 27 A.
We are grateful to the Johannes-Molzahn-Centrum, Kassel, for their kind, scientific support.
Provenance:
- Molzahn's estate
- Loretto Molzahn (artist's second wife), Munich
- Private collection Hesse
Exhibitions:
- Nierendorf Gallery, New York (presumably between 1944 and ca. 1959, label)
- Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna 1973
- Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1973, no. 35
Literature:
- Gries, Christian: Johannes Molzahn (1892-1965) und der 'Kampf um die Kunst' in Deutschland der Weimarer Republik (appendix: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde von Johannes Molzahn), diss. Universität Augsburg 1996, cat. rais. no. 265A
- Exhib. cat. Johannes Molzahn. Gemälde und Grafik, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1973, no. 35 (without ill.)
VAN HAM Art Estate has represented the artistic estate of Johannes Molzahn together with the Johannes Molzahn Centrum, Kassel since 2021 (www.johannes-molzahn.org).
1892 Duisburg - 1965 Munich
Title: "Spacial Strata".
Date: 1944.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 86.5 x 102cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower centre: Johs. Molzahn 44. Verso inscribed and titled lower left: JOHANNES MOLZAHN 1944, CHICAGO SPACIAL STRATA Spacial strata. Verso numbered upper left: 27.A.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
The work is listed in the fragmentary inventory of paintings by Loretto Molzahn under number 27 A.
We are grateful to the Johannes-Molzahn-Centrum, Kassel, for their kind, scientific support.
Provenance:
- Molzahn's estate
- Loretto Molzahn (artist's second wife), Munich
- Private collection Hesse
Exhibitions:
- Nierendorf Gallery, New York (presumably between 1944 and ca. 1959, label)
- Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna 1973
- Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1973, no. 35
Literature:
- Gries, Christian: Johannes Molzahn (1892-1965) und der 'Kampf um die Kunst' in Deutschland der Weimarer Republik (appendix: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde von Johannes Molzahn), diss. Universität Augsburg 1996, cat. rais. no. 265A
- Exhib. cat. Johannes Molzahn. Gemälde und Grafik, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1973, no. 35 (without ill.)
VAN HAM Art Estate has represented the artistic estate of Johannes Molzahn together with the Johannes Molzahn Centrum, Kassel since 2021 (www.johannes-molzahn.org).
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Stock Id: 77077-3