Lot 10 | Paul Kleinschmidt | Vor dem Spiegel, Rückenakt mit schwarzer Schürze

KLEINSCHMIDT, PAUL1883 Bobolice - 1949 Bensheim


Title: Vor dem Spiegel, Rückenakt mit schwarzer Schürze.
Date: 1924.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 95.5 x 60.5cm.
Notation: Monogrammed and dated upper left: P. Kl. 24.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Reglindis Cuonz-Kleinschmidt (stamp)
- Private ownership (since 1949)

Exhibitions:
- Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 1959, cat. no. 7 (here titled: Rückenakt mit schwarzer Schürze)
- Kunstverein, Tübingen 1968, cat. no. 3 (here titled: Vor dem Spiegel)
- Ulm Museum, 2003
- Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 2003
- Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, 2003
- Parktheater Bensheim, 2004
- Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg 2004

Literature:
- Lipps-Kant, Barbara: Paul Kleinschmidt 1883-1949, vol. II, Tübingen 1977, cat. rais. no. 31, ill.
- Exhibition cat. Paul Kleinschmidt - Zwischen Bar und Boudoir: Malerei, Ulm 2003, p. 24, no. 4, ill.

- A work fresh to the art market, which has always been in private ownership
- Depictions of Margarete Kleinschmidt, wife of the artist, are among the recurring motifs
- The painting was executed during an explosive period of artistic creativity in the 1920s in Berlin

New catalogue raisonné:
VAN HAM Art Publications has begun to compile a new catalogue raisonné of the paintings and works on paper based on the dissertation "Paul Kleinschmidt 1883-1949", 1977, by Dr. Barbara Lipps-Kant. This is being done under the supervision of Dr. Felix Billeter and in cooperation with the artist's descendants and the Paul Kleinschmidt Society.

To this end, we ask for your assistance: please contact publications@van-ham.com if you own an original work by Paul Kleinschmidt. Your data will of course be treated discreetly.

www.paul-kleinschmidt.info.