Lot 463: Elend

Karl Opfermann (German, 1891-1960)
Elend
signed 'OPFERMANN' (on top of the base)
cedar wood
Height: 37 3/8 in. (95 cm.)
Executed circa 1918

Hamburg, Ausstellung der Hamburger Sezession, 1919 - 1920, no. 44.
Altenburg, Lindenau-Museum, Internationale Sprachen der Kunst: Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen der Klassischen Moderne aus der Sammlung Hoh, August - October 1998, no. 69 (illustrated p. 147); this exhibition later travelled to Osnabrück, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall and Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum.
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Entfesselt, Expressionismus in Hamburg um 1920, February - June 2006 (illustrated p. 102).

K. Lorenz, 'Erste Ausstellung der Hamburgischen Sezession, 1919/1920, Kunsthalle Hamburg', in Die Rote Erde, vol. I, 1919, pp. 230-232.
K. Lorenz, 'Der Bildhauer Karl Opfermann', in Die Rote Erde, vol. II, Hamburg, 1922, p. 124 & pp. 157-158 (illustrated p. 194ff).

Private collection, Hamburg.
Anonymous sale, Neumeister, Munich, 31 May 1988, lot 348.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
On loan to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, since 1995.

PROPERTY FROM THE HOH COLLECTION