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Albert Birkle

Berlin 1900 – 1986 Salzburg

Bearing of the cross (Friedrichstraße). 1924

Oil on canvas. 97 × 217 cm (38 ¼ × 85 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Albert Birkle. Bearing of the cross (Friedrichstraße). 1924.

Estimate:

EUR 100,000

 

- 150,000

USD 118,000

 

- 176,000

Sold for:

275,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2020

From Beuys to Liebermann – Selected Works, Thursday, 03.12.2020

Information

Oil on canvas. 97 × 217 cm (38 ¼ × 85 ⅜ in.). Signed and dated lower right by the artist 1982: A Birkle 1924. Minor retouchings. Framed

We would like to thank Viktor Pontzen, Salzburg, for kindly providing additional information..

Peter Hopf, Berlin / Private Collection, Europe

The painting will be included in the extended catalogue raisonné of paintings by Albert Birkle by Viktor Pontzen, Archiv Albert Birkle, Salzburg (in preparation).
Provenance: Property of the artist (until 1982) / Peter Hopf, Berlin / Private Collection, Europe

Die Stadt in den zwanziger Jahren. Berlin, Galerie Bodo Niemann, 1984, ill. / Der Potsdam Platz. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und der Untergang Preußens. Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2001 (not in catalogue) / Aftermath. Art in the Wake of World War One. London, Tate Britain, 2018, cat. no. 64, ill. p. 87

Sylvia Kraker: Albert Birkle 1900–1986. Innsbruck, Universität, Diss. Phil., 1992, cat. no. 647 / auction no. 138: Sammlung Hopf. Berlin, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 1.12.2006, cat. no. 1636, ill.

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