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Lot 426: Kurt Weinhold (German, 1896-1965)

Est: £0 GBP - £0 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomFebruary 05, 2009

Item Overview

Description

Kurt Weinhold (German, 1896-1965)
Mann mit Radio (Homo Sapiens)
signed and dated 'Kurt Weinhold-Calw 29' (lower left); signed and inscribed 'Kurt Weinhold-Calw Württbg. "Mann mit Radio."' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
47 3/8 x 35¾ in. (121 x 90.8 cm.)
Painted in 1929

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Dresden, Kunstverein, no. 2740.
Stuttgart, Galerie Valentien, Ausstellung Kurt Weinhold, January - February 1976, p. 2 (illustrated).
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Neue Sachlichkeit: Magischer Realismus, December 1990 - February 1991, no. 63 (illustrated p. 153).
Munich, Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Der kühle Blick: Realismus der zwanziger Jahre, June - September 2001, p. 333 (illustrated).
Stuttgart, Galerie Valentien, Kurt Weinhold, February 1976.
New York, Ubu Gallery, Neue Sachlichkeit: New Objectivity in Weimar Germany, November 2004.
Barcelona, Fundación Caixa Catalunya, La música y el III Reich, De Bayreuth a Terezin, February - May 2007, no. 177 (illustrated p. 161).

Literature

S. Michalski, Neue Sachlichkeit: Malerei, Graphik und Photographie in Deutschland 1919-1933, Cologne, 1992, p. 158 (illustrated).
S. Michalski, New objectivity: painting, graphic art and photography in Weimar, London, 2003, p. 159 (illustrated p. 160).
P. Sloterdijk, Sphären, Plurale Sphärologie, vol. III, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, p. 593 (illustrated).
U. Peters, 'Kurt Weinhold: Mann mit Radio (Homo sapiens), 1929', in Monats anzeiger, Museen und Ausstellungen in Nürnberg, February 2004, pp. 2-4 (illustrated p. 2 and on the cover).
U. Peters, 'Führerstimme und Wunschkonzert', in KulturGUT, aus der Forschung des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Book 15, IV Quartal, 2007 (illustrated p. 8).

Provenance

Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart.
Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau (no. 10).
Rolf Deyhle, Stuttgart.
Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart.
On loan to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, since 2001.

Notes

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Auction Details

Impressionist/Modern, Day Sale

by
Christie's
February 05, 2009, 02:00 PM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK