Auction: 12 days
As of May 28, 2026
DEXEL, WALTER
1890 Munich–1973 Brunswick
Title: "Mädchen mit schwarzem Haar".
Date: 1932.
Technique: Tempera, India ink, lacquer and silver bronze on card.
Measurement: 65 x 50 cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: WDexel. Titled and inscribed lower left: Mädchen mit schwarzem Haar 25. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed: WDexel 32 Mädchen mit schwarzem Haar Nachlass.
Frame: Framed.
This work on paper became the template for a colour silkscreen created in 1968
Provenance:
- - Estate of the artist
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
Exhibition:
- Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig 1962, cat. no. 113
- Städtisches Museum, Trier 1965, cat. no. 53
- Staatliche Werkschule und Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel 1965
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 1966, cat. no. 58
- Galerie Klihm, Munich 1968
- Galerie am Rhein, Cologne 1969
- Galerie Charles Lienhard, Basel 1970, cat. no. 7
- Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover 1974, cat. no. 121
- Galerie Circulus, Bonn 1975
- Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster 1979, cat. no. 291
- Galerie Rolf Ohse, Bremen 1980
- Kunstamt Wedding, Berlin, 1983, cat. no. 8
- Kunsthalle Bremen, 1990, cat. no. 87
Literature:
- Wöbkemeier, Ruth/Der Kunstverein in Bremen (eds.): Walter Dexel (1890-1973) - Werkverzeichnis Gemälde, Hinterglasbilder, Gouachen, Aquarelle, Collagen, Ölstudien, Entwürfe zu Bühnenbildern, Heidelberg 1995, cat. rais. no. 395, ill.
- Vitt, Walter: "Zu Dexels Serie der Köpfe", in: Circular, Zeitschrift für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, issue 1, p. 5
- Vitt, Walter: Zu Walter Dexels Werkgruppe "Die Köpfe", afterword to the book "Walter Dexel, Köpfe 1930-1933", Starnberg 1979, pp. 60-61
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