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Hans Schmitz

1896 – Cologne – 1977

Workers Uprising (Large wall relief and drawing). 1932/1949

Plaster relief and carpenter's pencil on heavy paper. 67 × 64 × 10 cm, 45,8 × 34,2 cm (26 ⅜ × 25 ¼ × 3 ⅞ in. and 18 × 13 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Hans Schmitz. Workers Uprising (Large wall relief and drawing). 1932/1949.

Estimate:

EUR 5,000

 

- 7,000

USD 5,950

 

- 8,330

Sold for:

6,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer 2021

Sander Collection, Thursday, 10.06.2021

Information

Plaster relief and carpenter's pencil on heavy paper. 67 × 64 × 10 cm, 45,8 × 34,2 cm (26 ⅜ × 25 ¼ × 3 ⅞ in. and 18 × 13 ½ in.). The plaster relief is monogrammed on the worker's foot lower right: h. sch. The drawing is signed and dated in pencil lower right: Hans Schmitz 1949. The drawing is slightly stained at the bottom.

Relief: Estate Hans Schmitz, Cologne / Frank Manuel Peter, Cologne.
Drawing: August Sander, Cologne (thence by descent to the present owner)

Zeitgenossen. August Sander und die Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland. Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, and Kiel, Kunsthalle, 2000, p. 225, cat. no. 476 (plaster relief, dat. „1932“), and cat. no. 477 (drawing, „presumably produced already in 1932 in connection with the plaster relief of the same name“)

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