LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

18.90 in. (48.00 cm.) (height) by 16.54 in. (42.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Krefeld, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, August Macke und Wilhelm Morgner, 1921 (titled 'Marienkirche im Frühling'). Munich, Haus der Kunst, Entartete Kunst, October - December 1962, no. 77. Bonn, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Die Rheinischen Expressionisten, August Macke und seine Malerfreunde, May - July 1979, no. 218; this exhibition later travelled to Krefeld, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, August - October 1979 and Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, October - December 1979.

Literature:

G. Vriesen, August Macke, Stuttgart, 1953, p. 320, no. 230 (illustrated). U. Heiderich, August Macke, Gemälde, Werkverzeichnis, Ostfildern, 2008, no. 321, p. 398 (illustrated p. 399).

Provenance:

Constanze Eggert, Frankfurt, by 1935. Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt, by 1952. Private collection, by 1957. Walter Franz, Cologne, by 1960. Galerie Anne Abels, Cologne. Anonymous sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 6-7 December 1963, lot 443. Private collection, Hanover, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.