Bidspirit auction | Walter Dexel: ”Der große Viadukt”
Walter Dexel: ”Der große Viadukt” - DEXEL, WALTER 1890 Munich - 1973 Brunswick Title: ”Der große Viadukt”. Date: 1920. Technique: Oil on canvas. Mounting: Relined. Measurement: 94 x 77cm. Notation: Signed and dated lower right: W DEXEL 20. In addition verso signed, dated, and titled: W DEXEL 20 DER GROSSE VIADUKT. Frame/Pedestal: Framed. The exact preliminary drawing is enclosed with the work (Der große Viadukt, 1920, pencil on transparency paper, 33,5 x 26cm). Provenance: - Barry Friedman, New York - Collection of Carl Laszlo, Basel - Galerie von Bartha, Basel - Private collection Switzerland - Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia Exhibitions: - Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin 1920 - Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, 1962 - Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 1962 - Städtisches Museum Wiesbaden, 1962 - Kunstverein Oldenburg, 1962 - Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1970 - Galerie Charles Lienhard, Basel 1970 - Goethe Institut Paris, 1972 - Galerie Circulus, Bonn 1973 - Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover 1974 (adhesive label) - Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, 1979 - Ulmer Museum, 1979 - Fritz Winter Haus, Ahlen 1980 (adhesive label) - Kunstamt Wedding, Berlin 1983 - Galerie Stolz, Cologne 1990 - Kunsthalle Bremen, 1990 Literature: - Wöbkemeier, Ruth/Der Kunstverein Bremen (ed.): Walter Dexel (1890-1973) - Werkverzeichnis. Gemälde, Hinterglasbilder, Gouachen, Aquarelle, Collagen, Ölstudien, Entwürfe zu Bühnenbildern, Heidelberg 1995, cat. rais. no. 141, ill. - Exhib.-cat. Walter Dexel, Ralph Voltmer, Jozsef Nemes- Lamperth, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin 1920, cat. no. 13 - Exhib.-cat. Walter Dexel, Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, 1962; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 1962; Städtisches Museum Wiesbaden, 1962; Kunstverein Oldenburg, 1962, cat. no. 35 - Exhib.-cat. Walter Dexel, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1970, cat. no. 18 - Exhib.-cat. Walter Dexel, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Basel 1970, cat. no. 14 - Faltblatt Walter Dexel, Goethe Institut Paris, 1972, no. 6 - Werner Hoffmann (ed.): Der Maler Walter Dexel, in: Kunst und Umwelt, fig. 4, Starnberg 1972, p. 11 fn. 29, ill. - Arrigo Lora-Totino (ed.): Walter Dexel. Evoluzione costruttivista, Turin 1973, without pages - Exhib.-cat. Walter Dexel, Galerie Circulus, Bonn 1973, cat. no. 39, ill. - Exhib.-cat. Walter Dexel, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover 1974, cat. no. 32 - Exhib.-cat. Walter Dexel - Bilder, Aquarelle, Collagen, Leuchtreklame, Typografie, Landesmuseum Münster, 1979; Ulmer Museum, 1979, cat. no. 46, p. 19, ill. - Exhib.-cat. Walter Dexel. Bilder, Aquarelle, Collagen, Fritz Winter Haus, Ahlen 1980, cat. no. 17 - Walter Vitt (ed.): Homage à Dexel (1890 - 1973). Beiträge zum 90. Geburtstag des Künstlers, Starnberg 1980, p. 44 - Exhib.-cat. Walter Dexel zum 10. Todestag. Ölbilder - Köpfe, Kunstamt Wedding, Berlin 1983, cat. no. 40 - Exhib.-cat. Schöne Tage im Hause Dexels - Das Gästebuch - Walter Dexel zum 100. Geburtstag, Galerie Stolz, Cologne 1990, cat. no. 2, p. 129, ill. - Exhib.-cat. Walter Dexel: Bild, Zeichen, Raum, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1990, cat. no. 16 - The creative foundations of painting are in close productive exchange with concepts from architecture, advertising, the decorative arts - The work illustrates pictorial construction with architectural building elements in a particularly impressive way Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. Explanations to the Catalogue Walter Dexel Germany Bauhaus Constructivism Post-War Art Modern Art 1920s Framed Abstract Painting Oil Geometric Abstraction