Lot 159: Portrait of a Girl

Nölken Franz Hamburg 1884 - La Capelle 1918 Portrait of a Girl Ca. 1903/04, charcoal drawing heightened with white, 43 x 33,5 cm, lo. middle monogr. N, mounted on cardboard, unframed. - Cf. the charcoal drawing in: Franz Nölken 1884-1918, Soest 1984, p. 68. - One the most important artist's of early modernism in Hamburg a. of international importance, member of the Hamburgischer Künstlerclub a. the Dresden Brücke, accompanied F. Ahlers-Hestermann to Paris, where he became pupil of Matisse in 1909, his many-sided pictorial oeuvre was rooted in naturalism a. later received influences of French neoimpressionism a. of Matisse. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Berlin (Brücke Museum), Schleswig (SHLM) a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Rump, Der Neue Rump, Meyer-Tönnesmann 'Der Hamburgische Künstlerclub von 1897', Kat. Galerie Herold m. WVZ. d. Gemälde u. Graphik von Meyer-Tönnesmann (Hamburg 1984) a. others.