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CHRISTIAN ROHLFS (1849-1938)

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04.03.2022 13:00UTC +01:00
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ID 717932
Lot 464 | CHRISTIAN ROHLFS (1849-1938)
CHRISTIAN ROHLFS (1849-1938)

Kornfeld

signed and dated 'C Rohlfs 7' (lower right)

oil on canvas

23 5⁄8 x 39 5⁄8 in. (60 x 100.5 cm.)

Painted in 1907







Provenance

Private collection, Berlin.

Pietro del Vecchio, Leipzig.

W. Colsman, Göttingen, by 1949.

Anonymous sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 18-19 October 1966, lot 1038.

Galerie Utermann, Dortmund, by 1972.

Anonymous sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 5 December 1975, lot 648.

Anonymous sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 2-4 June 1976, lot 1357.

Anonymous sale, Bassenge, Berlin, 28 November 1998, lot 6580.

Galerie Salis & Vertes, Salzburg.

Acquired from the above by the present owner by April 1999.





Literature

P. Vogt, Christian Rohlfs, Œuvre-Katalog der Gemälde, Recklinghausen, 1978, no. 409 (illustrated).

H. Wille, 'Frühwerke von Christian Rohlfs in Göttinger Privatbesitz', in Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, vol. V, Berlin, 1966, no. 7, p. 220 (illustrated fig. 158, p. 214).





Exhibited

Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Christian Rohlfs, Gema¨lde, Graphik, April - May 1919, no. 15 (titled 'Garbenfeld').

Göttingen, Kunstsammlungen der Universität, Christian Rohlfs: zum 100ja¨hrigen Geburtstag des Meisters, 1949, no. 12.

Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, Fünfzig Jahre Galerie Nierendorf: Rückblick, Dokumentation, Jubiläumsausstellung 1920-1970, September 1970 - March 1971, no. 29, p. 57 (illustrated; titled 'Ährengarben mit Bauerngarten' and dated '1908').





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