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Rudolf Schlichter

Calw 1890 – 1955 Munich

Porträt Helene Weigel. 1928

Oil on canvas. 83,5 × 60 cm (32 ⅞ × 23 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Rudolf Schlichter. Porträt Helene Weigel. 1928.

Estimate:

EUR 200,000

 

- 300,000

USD 236,000

 

- 353,000

Sold for:

600,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2017

Selected Works, Thursday, 30.11.2017

Information

Oil on canvas. 83,5 × 60 cm (32 ⅞ × 23 ⅝ in.). Signed lower right (incised into the wet paint): R. Schlichter. Minor retouchings, lower margin relined.

The painting will be offered with the explicit consent of the heirs of Alexander Granach.

We would like to thank Iliane Thiemann and Sabine Zolchow, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, for kindly providing additional information..

Alexander Granach, Berlin / Bruno Hübner; Berlin/Munich (received in 1933 by Alexander Granach in trust from Lotte Lieven-Stiefel, the partner of Granach, thence by descent to the present owner) / Private collection, Southern Germany

Rudolf Schlichter, Max Laeuger. Berlin, Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, April/May 1928 (without catalogue)

(Willi) Wolfradt: Berlin Ausstellungen (Rudolf Schlichter and Max Laeuger at Neumann-Nierendorf). In: Der Cicerone, XX. Vol., H. 9, 1. May-issue 1928, ill. p. 313 / Exh. cat.: Aspetti della „Nuova Oggettiva“. Aspekte der „Neuen Sachlichkeit“. Munich and Rome, Galleria del Levante, 1968, documentation no. D 43, ill. (not exhibited) / Exh. cat.: Rudolf Schlichter, 1890–1955. Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, and Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1984, p. 56a and p. 90, ill. 104 (not exhibited) / Jürgen Schebera: Damals in the Romanischen Café ... Künstler und ihre Lokale im Berlin der zwanziger Jahre. Leipzig, Edition Leipzig, here issue Braunschweig, Westermann, 1988, p. 86 / Exh. cat.: Rudolf Schlichter. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichungen. Tübingen, Kunsthalle; Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, and Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1997/98, p. 46, ill. p. 45 (not exhibited) / Akademie-Fenster 3: „Unerbittlich das Richtige zeigend“. Helene Weigel (1900–1971). Berlin, Akademie der Künste, 2000 (zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung in der Dresden Bank, Berlin), ill. p. 8 (not exhibited) / Christine Herold: Mutter des Ensembles. Helene Weigel – ein Leben with Bertolt Brecht. Cadolzburg, Ars Vivendi, 2001, p. 40 / Exh. cat.: Rudolf Schlichter. Eros and Apokalypse. Koblenz, Mittelrhein-Museum, and Halle/Saale, Kunstverein „Talstrasse“ e. V., 2015/16, p. 27 (not exhibited)

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