Lot 14A | "Sinnende alte Frau"

KAUS, MAX
Berlin 1891 - 1977

Title: "Sinnende alte Frau".
Date: 1936.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement : 74 x 90cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: MKAUS 36. Additionally once more signed and dated as well as titled verso on the canvas: Max Kaus 36 Sinnende alte Frau.
Frame/Pedestal: Artist's frame.


Provenance:
- Estate of the artist
- Private collection Berlin

Exhibitions:
- Museum Folkwang, Essen 1960
- Kunstverein Hanover, 1961
- Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin 1973
- Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin 1976
- Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin 1985
- Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 1991
- Staaliche Kunsthalle Berlin, 1991
- Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 1991
- Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, Berlin 2005
- Kunstsalon Chiericati, Potsdam 2018

Literature:
- Schmitt-Wischmann, Ursula (ed.): Max Kaus. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, 1990, p. 105, cat. rais. no. 223, ill.
- Exhibition catalogue Max Kaus - Gemälde/Temperablätter - 1916-1960, Museum Folkwang, Essen 1960, w/o ill.
- Exhibition catalogue Max Kaus - Gemälde 1916 - 1960, Kunstverein Hannover, 1961, cat. no. 29
- Exhibition catalogue Max Kaus - Oelbilder, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin 1973, w/o ill.
- Exhibition catalogue Max Kaus zum 85. Geburtstag, Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin 1976, ill.
- Exhibition catalogue Das Antlitz des Menschen, Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin 1985, p. 23, ill.
- Exhibition catalogue Der Berliner Maler Max Kaus, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, Berlin 2005, cat. no. 21

The present work hung 2005/2008 per the express wish of former German Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl as a loan in his Berlin office, Unter den Linden, at the Pariser Platz.