LOT DETAILS

Materials:

cedar wood

Measurements:

37.40 in. (95.00 cm.) (height)

Markings:

signed 'OPFERMANN' (on top of the base)

Exhibited:

Hamburg, Ausstellung der Hamburger Sezession, 1919 - 1920, no. 44. Altenburg, Lindenau-Museum, Internationale Sprachen der Kunst: Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen der Klassischen Moderne aus der Sammlung Hoh, August - October 1998, no. 69 (illustrated p. 147); this exhibition later travelled to Osnabrück, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall and Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Entfesselt, Expressionismus in Hamburg um 1920, February - June 2006 (illustrated p. 102).

Literature:

K. Lorenz, 'Erste Ausstellung der Hamburgischen Sezession, 1919/1920, Kunsthalle Hamburg', in Die Rote Erde, vol. I, 1919, pp. 230-232. K. Lorenz, 'Der Bildhauer Karl Opfermann', in Die Rote Erde, vol. II, Hamburg, 1922, p. 124 & pp. 157-158 (illustrated p. 194ff).

Provenance:

Private collection, Hamburg. Anonymous sale, Neumeister, Munich, 31 May 1988, lot 348. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner. On loan to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, since 1995.