Details

With a label of the art supplies merchant Lefranc et Cie, Paris on the reverse on the stretcher. Wetzel-Kerschbaumer G 1917/8, there with different dimensions of 81 x 100 cm. With a photo expertise by Konstanze Wetzel-Kerschbaumer, the artist’s daughter, Munich, dated 19.7.2016.

Literature: Westheim, Paul, Anton Kerschbaumer, in: DasKunstblatt – Monatsschrift für künstlerische Entwicklung in Malerei, Skulptur, Architektur und Kunsthandwerk, III year, issue 9, 1919, p. 269, with ill., there erroneously titled “Strassenecke III” and with varying dimensions “100 : 80”.
Exhibitions: Anton Kerschbaumer, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1919/1929, cat. no.27; Anton Kerschbaumer, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover 1920, cat. no.8;Anton Kerschbaumer, Gedächtnisausstellung, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1933, cat. no.5, there with the title “Straßenecke im Januar, Ostende 1918”
Provenance: private ownership, Rhineland: Lempertz, Cologne 2.12.2016, lot 306; private collection, Hessen.

Description

Kerschbaumer, who was stationed as a medic near Ostend during the First World War, captured four versions of this street corner. Unfortunately, two are thought to be lost. Despite his short creative career, his works are housed in important collections such as the Buchheim Museum in Bernried, the Brücke Museum in Berlin and the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach.