Figur - Frau Dr. Julius
Karl Ballmer (Aarau/Schweiz 1891 - Lamone/Lugano 1958)
Lot-No. 238
Proceeds : 4.100 €
Mixed media/paper, 34,5 x 24 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. K. Ballmer 32, matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Swiss painter a. draughtsman. B. studied at the Basel Kunstschule under A. Mayer, 1910-12 at the Munich academy under A. Jank, thereafter in the studio of C. Amiet in Oschwand. In 1917 he met R. Steiner a. worked in the construction of the first Goetheaneum since 1918. Subsequently he studied philosophy a. anthropology in Munich, Stuttgart a. Berlin. He settled in Hamburg in 1923 a. edited the Rudolf-Steiner-Blätter before joining the Hamburg secession in 1931. He soon made friends with R. Nesch, K. Kluth a. W. Grimm. As a consequence of Nazi discrimination - some of his works were seized as 'degenerate' from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe - he returned to Switzerland wit his wife in 1940. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Aarau. - Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, Gessner: K.B. - Maler u. Denker, Wismer: K. B.1891-1958 a. others.
Karl Ballmer: Figur - Frau Dr. Julius
Karl Ballmer (Aarau/Schweiz 1891 - Lamone/Lugano 1958)
Figur - Frau Dr. Julius
Lot-No. 238
Proceeds : 4.100 €
Mixed media/paper, 34,5 x 24 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. K. Ballmer 32, matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Swiss painter a. draughtsman. B. studied at the Basel Kunstschule under A. Mayer, 1910-12 at the Munich academy under A. Jank, thereafter in the studio of C. Amiet in Oschwand. In 1917 he met R. Steiner a. worked in the construction of the first Goetheaneum since 1918. Subsequently he studied philosophy a. anthropology in Munich, Stuttgart a. Berlin. He settled in Hamburg in 1923 a. edited the Rudolf-Steiner-Blätter before joining the Hamburg secession in 1931. He soon made friends with R. Nesch, K. Kluth a. W. Grimm. As a consequence of Nazi discrimination - some of his works were seized as 'degenerate' from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe - he returned to Switzerland wit his wife in 1940. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Aarau. - Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, Gessner: K.B. - Maler u. Denker, Wismer: K. B.1891-1958 a. others.