Ship amongst Waves
César Klein (Hamburg 1876 - Lübeck 1954)
Lot-No. 299
Proceeds : 1.600 €
Gouache, watercolour and pencil/cardboard. 27 x 40 cm. Lo. ri. sign. César Klein, matted and framed under glass, unopened. Some foxing, small lesions/punctures. - 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: Ship amongst Waves
César Klein (Hamburg 1876 - Lübeck 1954)
Ship amongst Waves
Lot-No. 299
Proceeds : 1.600 €
Gouache, watercolour and pencil/cardboard. 27 x 40 cm. Lo. ri. sign. César Klein, matted and framed under glass, unopened. Some foxing, small lesions/punctures. - 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.
