Studie für ein Bühnenbild
César Klein (Hamburg 1876 - Lübeck 1954)
Lot-No. 296
Proceeds : 1.900 €
1928. Gouache/paper. 25,5 x 31,5 cm. Lo. ri. sign. and dat. Cesar Klein 1928, matted and framed under glass, unopened. Min. tears. - Important German painter, graphic artist a. stage designer who participated in and shaped all important movements of avantgarde of the 20th cent. K. studied at the Hamburger Kunstgewerbeschule and at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin. Later he became board member of the Deutscher Werkbund. In 1910 he was co-founder of the Neue Sezession as well as of the Novembergruppe. He lectured at the Berlin academy, in 1945 he was the first German artist to be exhibited in London. His brother is the painter Bernhard Klein. Mus.: Hamburg, Cologne, Kiel a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, F. Pfefferkorn: C. K. - Oeuvrekatalog, U. Haupenthal: C. K. - Metamorphosen a. others.
César Klein: Studie für ein Bühnenbild
César Klein (Hamburg 1876 - Lübeck 1954)
Studie für ein Bühnenbild
Lot-No. 296
Proceeds : 1.900 €
1928. Gouache/paper. 25,5 x 31,5 cm. Lo. ri. sign. and dat. Cesar Klein 1928, matted and framed under glass, unopened. Min. tears. - Important German painter, graphic artist a. stage designer who participated in and shaped all important movements of avantgarde of the 20th cent. K. studied at the Hamburger Kunstgewerbeschule and at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin. Later he became board member of the Deutscher Werkbund. In 1910 he was co-founder of the Neue Sezession as well as of the Novembergruppe. He lectured at the Berlin academy, in 1945 he was the first German artist to be exhibited in London. His brother is the painter Bernhard Klein. Mus.: Hamburg, Cologne, Kiel a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, F. Pfefferkorn: C. K. - Oeuvrekatalog, U. Haupenthal: C. K. - Metamorphosen a. others.
