Woman in an armchair - Hildegard Eggers-Kestner
Erich Hartmann (Elberfeld 1886 - Hamburg 1974)
Lot-No. 331
Oil/canvas. 114x91.5cm. Signed lower right E. Hartmann, dated IV 1933 and titled 'Frau im Armchair' on the verso. Some color loss. - Exhibition: The painting was on display: Fountain of Apparition. Samuel Beckett and modern Hamburg art 1936, Hamburg 2007 - Literature: The painting is published with an illustration in: Fountain of Appearance. Samuel Beckett and modern Hamburg art 1936, p. 57; V. D. Heydorn: Erich Hartmann, o. J., Fig. 46 - Provenance: From the property of the actor couple Kurt and Hildegard Eggers-Kestner; most recently owned by their granddaughter - Landscape and figure painter, studied at the Düsseldorf and Munich academies under E. von Gebhardt a. P. von Halm, among others member of the Hamburg secession and the Deutscher Künstlerbund, later professor in Hamburg. Mus.: Hamburg (Altonaer Mus., MK&G a. others), Bremen, Schleswig (SHLM), Hannover (Sprengelmus.), Wuppertal (Von-der-Heydt-Mus.). Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, Heydorn 'E. H. (Hamburger Künstler-Monographien, vol. 3), Küster 'E. H. - Die kleinen Formate' (1995) a. others.
Erich Hartmann: Woman in an armchair - Hildegard Eggers-Kestner
Erich Hartmann (Elberfeld 1886 - Hamburg 1974)
Woman in an armchair - Hildegard Eggers-Kestner
Lot-No. 331
| Technique: | Oil/canvas |
| Dimensions: | 114x91.5cm |
| Mark/Notation: | Signed lower right E. Hartmann, dated IV 1933 and titled 'Frau im Armchair' on the verso |
| Condition: | Some color loss |
| Exhibitions: | The painting was on display: Fountain of Apparition. Samuel Beckett and modern Hamburg art 1936, Hamburg 2007 |
| References: | The painting is published with an illustration in: Fountain of Appearance. Samuel Beckett and modern Hamburg art 1936, p. 57; V. D. Heydorn: Erich Hartmann, o. J., Fig. 46 |
| Provenance: | From the property of the actor couple Kurt and Hildegard Eggers-Kestner; most recently owned by their granddaughter |
Vita:
Landscape and figure painter, studied at the Düsseldorf and Munich academies under E. von Gebhardt a. P. von Halm, among others member of the Hamburg secession and the Deutscher Künstlerbund, later professor in Hamburg. Mus.: Hamburg (Altonaer Mus., MK&G a. others), Bremen, Schleswig (SHLM), Hannover (Sprengelmus.), Wuppertal (Von-der-Heydt-Mus.). Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, Heydorn 'E. H. (Hamburger Künstler-Monographien, vol. 3), Küster 'E. H. - Die kleinen Formate' (1995) a. others.
