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Fidus (i.e. Höppener, Hugo)

Lübeck 1868 – 1948 Woltersdorf near Berlin

„Der verlorene Sohn“. 1892

Charcoal on nacreous paper, laid down by the artist on grey-green cardboard and painted in the margin with watercolour, brush and pen and India ink. 56,7 x 34,6 cm (60 x 43,5 cm) (22 ⅜ x 13 ⅝ in. (23 ⅝ x 17 ⅛ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Fidus (i.e. Höppener, Hugo). „Der verlorene Sohn“. 1892.

Estimate:

EUR 1,800

 

- 2,400

USD 2,450

 

- 3,270

Sold for:

8,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 215-221

19th Century Art, Wednesday, 27.11.2013

Information

Charcoal on nacreous paper, laid down by the artist on grey-green cardboard and painted in the margin with watercolour, brush and pen and India ink. 56,7 x 34,6 cm (60 x 43,5 cm) (22 ⅜ x 13 ⅝ in. (23 ⅝ x 17 ⅛ in.)). Signed and dated lower right inside the image: Fidus 92. Titled in pen and black ink below the image DER VERLORENE SOHN. On the reverse upper right the stamp in violet, numbered in pen and black ink: Eugen Lucius Frankfurt a.M. No. 26.. Foxing, the paper with slight time staining.

Formerly collection Dr. Eugen Lucius, Frankfurt a.M./Schönstadt (between 1892 and 1903 acquired directly from the artist, thence by descent to the present owner)

Sphinx, Monatsschrift für Seelen- und Geistesleben, volume XIV, issue 79, September 1892, full-page illustration between p. 256 and p. 257 / Janos Frecot, Johann Friedrich Geist and Diethart Kerbs: Fidus 1868–1948. Zur ästhetischen Praxis bürgerlicher Fluchtbewegungen. Munich, Rogner & Bernhard, 1972, p. 312 (chapter 5.1: Bildnerische Tätigkeit, 1892.6)

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