Lot 17
  • 17

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

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Description

  • Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
  • Composition no. 42
  • Signed Vordemberge-Gildewart and numbered KN0 42 (on the stretcher) 
  • Oil on canvas
  • 30 by 30 in.
  • 80 by 80 cm

Provenance

Dr. Jos. Zuckmayer, Hannover (acquired in 1931)
Private Collection, Lübeck (by descent from the above)
Dr. Siegfried Poppe, Hamburg (acquired in 1969)  
Sale: Grisebach GmbH, Berlin, November 26, 2015, lot 40
Galerie Berinson, Berlin

Exhibited

Rapperswil, Galerie 58, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1966
Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1970, no. 13
Paris, Galerie Jean Chauvelin, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1974 
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1974
Ulm, Ulmer Museum, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1975 
Munster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1975, no. 19, illustrated in the catalogue
Hannover, Sprengel Museum & Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Die abstrakten Hannover. Internationale Avant-Garde 1927-35, 1987-88, no. 120

Literature

Hans J.C. Jaffé, Vordemberge-Gildewart: Mensch und Werk, Cologne, 1971, no. 46, illustrated n.p.
Dietrich Helms, ed., Vordemberge-Gildewart, The Complete Works, Munich, 1990, no. K42, illustrated in color p. 268

Condition

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