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Landscape with Mill

Franz Nölken (Hamburg 1884 - La Capelle 1918)


Landscape with Mill

Lot-No. 41


Oil/canvas, 25 x 38 cm, relined. - Expertise: Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann attributes the painting to Nölken. He deems it possible that is is a study for Nölkens 'Drei Kinder mit Ziege'. - Literature: Cf. 'Drei Kinder mit Ziege', with ill. in: C. Meyer-Tönnesmann a. others: Franz Nölken 1884-1918, Soest 1984, cat. rais. 7 and ill. p. 27. - N. is one the most important artist's of early modernism in Hamburg and of international importance. He was pupil of A. Siebelist since 1900. In 1904 he joined the Hamburgische Künstlerclub, in 1907 he became member of the 'Brücke' on recommendation of K. Schmidt-Rottluff. After exhibiting with the Brücke artists in Dresden in 1909 he went to Paris accompanied by F. Ahlers-Hestermann and W. Rosam to study in the studio of H. Matisse. The collectors E. Rump as well as the owner of Beierdsorf, O. Troplowitz were among his promoters. N.s many-sided pictorial oeuvre was rooted in naturalism and later received influences of French neoimpressionism and of Matisse. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Berlin (Brücke Museum), Schleswig (SHLM) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Rump, Der Neue Rump, C. Meyer-Tönnesmann: Der Hamburgische Künstlerclub von 1897, Kat. Galerie Herold with cat. rais. by Meyer-Tönnesmann 1984 a. others.

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Franz Nölken: Landscape with Mill


Franz Nölken (Hamburg 1884 - La Capelle 1918)

Landscape with Mill

Lot-No. 41

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Oil/canvas, 25 x 38 cm, relined. - Expertise: Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann attributes the painting to Nölken. He deems it possible that is is a study for Nölkens 'Drei Kinder mit Ziege'. - Literature: Cf. 'Drei Kinder mit Ziege', with ill. in: C. Meyer-Tönnesmann a. others: Franz Nölken 1884-1918, Soest 1984, cat. rais. 7 and ill. p. 27. - N. is one the most important artist's of early modernism in Hamburg and of international importance. He was pupil of A. Siebelist since 1900. In 1904 he joined the Hamburgische Künstlerclub, in 1907 he became member of the 'Brücke' on recommendation of K. Schmidt-Rottluff. After exhibiting with the Brücke artists in Dresden in 1909 he went to Paris accompanied by F. Ahlers-Hestermann and W. Rosam to study in the studio of H. Matisse. The collectors E. Rump as well as the owner of Beierdsorf, O. Troplowitz were among his promoters. N.s many-sided pictorial oeuvre was rooted in naturalism and later received influences of French neoimpressionism and of Matisse. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Berlin (Brücke Museum), Schleswig (SHLM) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Rump, Der Neue Rump, C. Meyer-Tönnesmann: Der Hamburgische Künstlerclub von 1897, Kat. Galerie Herold with cat. rais. by Meyer-Tönnesmann 1984 a. others.

Landscape with Mill
Landscape with Mill