Walter Dexel
DEXEL, WALTER
1890 Munich - 1973 Brunswick
Title:
"Dampfschiff".
Subtitle:
Hinterglasgemälde.
Date:
1922.
Technique:
Oil on Glass in artist's frame.
Measurement:
38 x 42cm.
Notation:
Signed, dated and inscribed verso on the back of the frame: WALTER DEXEL 1922/XVIII. Titled below.
Frame/Pedestal:
Craftman's frame.
Provenance:
- Galerie Stolz, Cologne 1994 (label)
- Collection Hilmar Kopper, Rothenbach
Exhibitions:
- Leipziger Kunstverein, no. 4853 (label)
- Kunsthandlung Linne, Ziegert & Co., Bremen 1923(?)
- Berliner Nationalgalerie in der Orangerie des Charlottenburger Schlosses 1961, cat. rais. no. 155, p. 76
- Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, 1962, cat. rais. no. 64, m. pag.
- Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz 1962, cat. rais. no. 15, m. pag.
- Galerie Klihm, Munich 1968, o. cat rais. no., m. pag.
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover 1974,cat rais. no. 40, p. 108 (label)
- Galerie Stolz, Cologne 1990, cat rais. no. 4, p. 133, ill. (label)
- Galerie Stolz, Cologne 1993, no. 6 on leaflet
Literature:
- Wöbkemeier, Ruth/Der Kunstverein Bremen (eds.): Walter Dexel (1890-1973) - Werkverzeichnis. Gemälde, Hinterglasbilder, Gouachen, Aquarelle, Collagen, Ölstudien, Entwürfe zu Bühnenbildern, Heidelberg 1995, cat rais. no. 196, ill.
- Clear and objective formal language of Constructivism
- From the period in which Dexel made the transition to free pictorial construction
- Early works by the artist from the 1920s appear extremely rarely on the art market
- From the exciting series of reverse glass paintings.
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