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The Magic Flute

Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann (Hamburg 1883 - Berlin 1973)


The Magic Flute

Lot-No. 147


1914, oil/canvas, 145,5 x 80 cm, lo. le. sign. F. Ahlers-Hestermann, on the stretcher label of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, min. dam. - Exhibition: The painting was exhibited: Rückblick und Gegenwart. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1963; Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin 1953. - Literature: Cat. rais.: Manigold 78. - Provenance: Tatjana Ahlers-Hestermann, daughter of the artist; since 1992Hamburg private collection. - Painter a. author, trained by A. Siebelist, travelled to Paris with F. Nölken a. W. Rosam where he became pupil of H. Matisse in 1910 a. met his future wife, A. Povorina, member of the Hamburgischer Künstlerclub a. the Hamburg secession, since 1928 professor at the Cologne Werkkunstschule, dismissed by the Nazis in 1933, after the war he became a head of the Berlin academy of arts, was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz a. the Edwin Scharff award.

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Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann: The Magic Flute


Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann (Hamburg 1883 - Berlin 1973)

The Magic Flute

Lot-No. 147

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1914, oil/canvas, 145,5 x 80 cm, lo. le. sign. F. Ahlers-Hestermann, on the stretcher label of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, min. dam. - Exhibition: The painting was exhibited: Rückblick und Gegenwart. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1963; Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin 1953. - Literature: Cat. rais.: Manigold 78. - Provenance: Tatjana Ahlers-Hestermann, daughter of the artist; since 1992Hamburg private collection. - Painter a. author, trained by A. Siebelist, travelled to Paris with F. Nölken a. W. Rosam where he became pupil of H. Matisse in 1910 a. met his future wife, A. Povorina, member of the Hamburgischer Künstlerclub a. the Hamburg secession, since 1928 professor at the Cologne Werkkunstschule, dismissed by the Nazis in 1933, after the war he became a head of the Berlin academy of arts, was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz a. the Edwin Scharff award.

The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute