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Franz Wilhelm Seiwert

1894 – Cologne – 1933

”Stark abstrahierte Halbfigur”. 1920

Oil on cardboard. 25,7 × 19,5 cm (10 ⅛ × 7 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Franz Wilhelm Seiwert. ”Stark abstrahierte Halbfigur”. 1920.

Estimate:

EUR 30,000

 

- 40,000

USD 35,700

 

- 47,600

Sold for:

118,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer 2021

Sander Collection, Thursday, 10.06.2021

Information

Oil on cardboard. 25,7 × 19,5 cm (10 ⅛ × 7 ⅝ in.). Monogrammed and dated in the middle right: FWS 20. Catalogue raisonné: Bohnen 20. Minor retouchings.

Minor retouchings

August Sander, Cologne (thence by descent to the present owner)

Hoerle und sein Kreis. Frechen, Kunstverein, 1970/71, cat. no. 222 / Vom Dadamax zum Grüngürtel. Cologne in the 1920s. Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1975 (not included in the catalogue) / Die Progressiven. Hamburg, Galerie Brockstedt, 1975 (not included in the catalogue; according to label on the back) / Die Kalltal-Presse 1919–1921. [...] Die Kölner Progressiven im Kalltal und ihre Begegnung mit B. Traven. Stadt Düren, Papiermuseum of the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, 1994, p. 97, ill. 23 / Contemporaries. August Sander and the art scene in the 1920s in the Rhineland. Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, and Kiel, Kunsthalle, 2000, p. 226, cat. no. 497, and p. 16, ill. 10 / köln progressiv 1920–33. Seiwert–hoerle–arntz. Cologne, Museum Ludwig, 2008, p. 51, ill. 56 / Los progresistas de Colonia. August Sander y su círculo de amigos. 1920–1933. Valladolid, Museo de Pasión, Sala Municipal de Exposiciones, 2012/13, ill. p. 64

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