As of Nov 13, 2024

Otto Modersohn

Lot 146
Moorlandschaft, 1943
Oil on canvas

19.9 x 27.8 in (50.5 x 70.5 cm)

Lot 146
Moorlandschaft, 1943
Oil on canvas
19.9 x 27.8 in (50.5 x 70.5 cm)

Estimate:
€ 14,000 - 18,000
Auction: 22 days

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

City: Munich
Auction: Dec 07, 2024
Auction number: 562
Auction name: 19th Century Art

Lot Details
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 50.5 x 70.5 cm.

• Characteristic landscape painting by one of the most important Worpswede artists.
• Subtle reproduction of the atmospheric evening ambiance in the transparent, misty application of paint characteristic of Modersohn's later period.
• Otto Modersohn and his fellow Worpswede artists were forerunners of a new, intuitive landscape painting and pioneers of German Modernism.
• Modersohn's evening scenes inspired Rainer Maria Rilke, who was a very early inhabitant of the Worpswedeart colony.
LITERATURE: WV-OM-SW 1943, no. 7: Herbstlandschaft Moor (f. Tobisch) 70 x 50.
Private collection, Northern Germany (1990s). Private collection, Bavaria. Private collection, Bavaria. Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
Lot Details
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 50.5 x 70.5 cm.

• Characteristic landscape painting by one of the most important Worpswede artists.
• Subtle reproduction of the atmospheric evening ambiance in the transparent, misty application of paint characteristic of Modersohn's later period.
• Otto Modersohn and his fellow Worpswede artists were forerunners of a new, intuitive landscape painting and pioneers of German Modernism.
• Modersohn's evening scenes inspired Rainer Maria Rilke, who was a very early inhabitant of the Worpswedeart colony.
LITERATURE: WV-OM-SW 1943, no. 7: Herbstlandschaft Moor (f. Tobisch) 70 x 50.
Private collection, Northern Germany (1990s). Private collection, Bavaria. Private collection, Bavaria. Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

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