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Johannes Molzahn

Duisburg 1892 – 1965 Munich

”Pulsender Stern”. 1919

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

Estimate:

EUR 60,000

 

- 80,000

USD 70,600

 

- 94,100

Sold for:

75,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2020

From Beuys to Liebermann – Selected Works, Thursday, 03.12.2020

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Oil on canvas. 72,6 × 58,2 cm (28 ⅝ × 22 ⅞ in.). Signed and dated upper left: Molzahn 19. Signed, titled and dated on the reverse: Molzahn Pulsender Stern 1919. There too a figural composition. Circa 1916. Catalogue raisonné: Gries 51 A. Framed

Private Collection, Northern Germany / Private Collection, Europe

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

Erich Wiese: Johannes Molzahn. In: Der Cicerone, vol. 13, 1921, p. 657 / auction catalogue: Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 1. December 1971, cat. no. 839 / exhibition catalogue: Das frühe Bauhaus und Johannes Itten. Weimar, Kunstsammlungen; Berlin, Bauhaus Archiv – Museum for Gestaltung, and Bern, Kunstmuseum; 1994/95, p. 419, ill. p. 420 (not exhibited)

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