Way with Birch and Buggy
Otto Modersohn (Soest 1865 - Fischerhude 1943)
Lot-No. 517
Starting Bid: 10.000 €
1904. Oil/cardboard/fibre board. 57 x 40,5 cm. Lower right signed Otto Modersohn, lower left dated IX 04. Small pigment losses. - Exhibition: Kunstverein Hannover/LWL-Museum, Münster, 1978/1979; Worpsweder Kunsthalle/Otto-Modersohn-Museum, Fischerhude, 1977; Museum Folkwang, Essen, 1966; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, April 1966; Kunsthalle Bremen, 1965. - Provenance: Estate Otto Modersohn; Christian Modersohn; Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen 1970; private collection Bremen; private collection Kiel - Worpswede painter, main exponent of the Worpswede artist colony. He studied since 1884 at the Düsseldorf academy, thereafter in Munich a. Karlsruhe. Accompanied by F. Mackensen he visited Worpswede for the first time in 1889. Shortly after H. am Ende, F. Overbeck a. H. Vogeler joined them a. the artist's colony emerged. An exhibition in the Bremen Kunsthalle brought supra-regional attention, an exhibtion in the Munich Glaspalast the same year was the international break-thorugh. To keep his personal a. artistical freedom M. left the Worpswede Künstlervereinigung as soon as 1899. After the death of his wife Paula Modersohn-Becker he moved to the nearby Fischerhude, since 1922 he also travelled regularly to the Allgäu. In 1940 he was awarded the Goethe medal, an important German prize. M. developed the immediateness, the feeling for nature and the sense for colour of the classic plein air painting in direction of a reduced concreteness which concentrates the form of nature to compact masses a. makes the colour communicate the mood. Mus.: Munich (Neue Pinakothek), Fischerhude, Bremen, Hannover, Oldenburg, Prag, Breslau, Danzig a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.
Otto Modersohn: Way with Birch and Buggy
Otto Modersohn (Soest 1865 - Fischerhude 1943)
Way with Birch and Buggy
Lot-No. 517
Starting Bid: 10.000 €
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| Date: | 1904 |
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| Technique: | Oil/cardboard/fibre board |
| Dimensions: | 57 x 40,5 cm |
| Mark/Notation: | Lower right signed Otto Modersohn, lower left dated IX 04 |
| Condition: | Small pigment losses |
| Exhibitions: | Kunstverein Hannover/LWL-Museum, Münster, 1978/1979; Worpsweder Kunsthalle/Otto-Modersohn-Museum, Fischerhude, 1977; Museum Folkwang, Essen, 1966; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, April 1966; Kunsthalle Bremen, 1965. |
| Provenance: | Estate Otto Modersohn; Christian Modersohn; Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen 1970; private collection Bremen; private collection Kiel |
Vita:
Worpswede painter, main exponent of the Worpswede artist colony. He studied since 1884 at the Düsseldorf academy, thereafter in Munich a. Karlsruhe. Accompanied by F. Mackensen he visited Worpswede for the first time in 1889. Shortly after H. am Ende, F. Overbeck a. H. Vogeler joined them a. the artist's colony emerged. An exhibition in the Bremen Kunsthalle brought supra-regional attention, an exhibtion in the Munich Glaspalast the same year was the international break-thorugh. To keep his personal a. artistical freedom M. left the Worpswede Künstlervereinigung as soon as 1899. After the death of his wife Paula Modersohn-Becker he moved to the nearby Fischerhude, since 1922 he also travelled regularly to the Allgäu. In 1940 he was awarded the Goethe medal, an important German prize. M. developed the immediateness, the feeling for nature and the sense for colour of the classic plein air painting in direction of a reduced concreteness which concentrates the form of nature to compact masses a. makes the colour communicate the mood. Mus.: Munich (Neue Pinakothek), Fischerhude, Bremen, Hannover, Oldenburg, Prag, Breslau, Danzig a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.
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