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Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977), 7 Woodcuts, 1940s to 1970s

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:800.00 EUR Estimated At:1,280.00 - 1,600.00 EUR
Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977), 7 Woodcuts, 1940s to 1970s
The works on hand are a nice selection of personal and special items by the German artist Conrad Felixmüller. The lot comprises an artist monograph with four original woodcuts, another small catalogue with an original handmade print and a proof woodcut for a greeting card with the matching card. The artist monograph ‘Conrad Felixmüller, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgrafik, Dresden-Berlin 1975/76’ (‘Conrad Felixmüller, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Graphic Works, Dresden-Berlin 1975/76’) includes four original woodcuts, each with signature. The book is inscribed by the artist with a dedication to a friend dating. A further booklet on the artist includes an original handmade woodcut on Japan paper which is also signed. Furthermore the lot comprises a personal New Year’s greeting card that the artist made out to the same friend a few years earlier in 1956. The limited proof print of the imagery is also part of this appealing set of woodcuts and reading material.



The woodcuts are in very good condition. Both monographs show signs of wear. Each woodcuts is signed lower right with ‘C. Felixmüller’ and shows the monogram in the print. The sheet dimensions lie between 10 x 30 cm – 23.5 x 31 cm and the dimensions of the images are between 8 x 10 cm – 19 x 27 cm.



The lot comprises the following woodcuts:

„Pferdetransport“, 1959, Handabzug auf Japanpapier (Söhn 574)

„Neujahrsgruß für 1956“, 1956 (Söhn 535)

„Neujahrsgruß für 1956“, 1956, limitierter Probedruck ( Söhn 535)

„Selbstbildnis an der Staffelei“, (Söhn 691)

„Kunststudium“, 1951 (Söhn 513)

„Im September mache ich meine Studien für das Porträt Friedrich Wolf“, 1947 (Söhn 427)

„Nach der Arbeit (Heimweg)“, 1952 (Söhn 514)



Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977)

Conrad Felixmüller was born in Dresden in 1897 as Conrad Felix Müller. He started out studying music but soon turned to studying Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts in Dresden. In 1914 he was elected master pupil of Carl Bantzer. As early as 1915 Felixmüller set out as an independent artist and soon began exhibiting his works in galleries. In 1915 he exhibited with the Galerie Sturm in Berlin and a year later with the gallery Hans Goltz in Munich. In 1919 he was founding member of the artist group Dresdner Secession; other members included for example Lasar Segall and Otto Dix. Between the years 1919-24 he was an active member of the German communist party. 1928 he was granted the prize by the Saxon art association in Dresden. In 1919 he exhibited his work in the Berlin gallery Gurlitt. In 1934 the artist moved to Berlin and only two years later a devastating number of 40 of his works were part of the ‘Degenerate Art Exhibition’ put forward by the National Socialists. He was therefore excluded from the ‘Verein Berliner Künstler’ (‘Association of Berlin Artsits’) and a year later his works were removed from any public collection. Between 1949 and 1961 he worked as a professor at the University of Halle. After that he moved back to Berlin. He was awarded the gold medal at the IV. Graphic Biennale in Florence in 1974. His works are featured in many prominent German public collections today, such as the German Historic Museum in Berlin and the Museum of Art in Düsseldorf. A great retrospective was recently held at the Ernst Barlach Foundation in Hamburg.
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