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Johannes Molzahn

Duisburg 1892 – 1965 Munich

„Pulsender Stern“. 1919

Oil on canvas. 72,6 x 58,2 cm (28 ⅝ x 22 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Johannes Molzahn. „Pulsender Stern“. 1919.

Estimate:

EUR 40,000

 

- 60,000

USD 54,500

 

- 81,800

Sold for:

82,110 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 159-163

Selected Works, Friday, 28.11.2008

Information

Oil on canvas. 72,6 x 58,2 cm (28 ⅝ x 22 ⅞ in.). Signed and dated upper left (incised into the wet paint): Molzahn 19. On the reverse signed, inscribed and dated: Molzahn Pulsender Stern 1919. There also a further painting (figures). Approx. 1916. Catalogue raisonné: Gries 51 A. Framed

Private collection, Northern Germany

80. Ausstellung. Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, 1919, cat. no. 58 / Johannes Molzahn. Das malerische Werk. Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, 1988, cat. no. 8, full page colour ill. p. 45 / Expressionismus in Thüringen. Erfurt, Galerie am Fischmarkt and Angermuseum, 1999, colour ill. p. 140

Erich Wiese: Johannes Molzahn. In: Der Cicerone, vol. 13, 1921, p. 657 / auction catalogue: Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 1. December 1971, no. 839 / exhibition catalogue: Das frühe Bauhaus und Johannes Itten. Weimar, Kunstsammlungen; Berlin, Bauhaus Archiv - Museum für Gestaltung; Bern, Kunstmuseum; 1994/95, p. 419, ill. p. 420

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