Frau auf dem Balkon

Details

Heinrich Campendonk (1889-1957)
Frau auf dem Balkon
signed, dated and indistinctly inscribed 'H Campendonk 1913 [...]' (lower right)
watercolour and brush and ink on paper
21 x 17 in. (53.5 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1913

Provenance

Galerie Heseler, Munich, by 1989.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above in the late 1990s.

Literature

A. Firmenich, Heinrich Campendonk, Leben und Expressionistisches Werk, Mit Werkkatalog des Malerischen OEuvres, Recklinghausen, 1989, no. 384 (illustrated pl. 17, p. 89 & n.p.).

Exhibited

Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Heinrich Campendonk, ein Maler des Blauen Reiter, September - November 1989, no. 35 (illustrated p. 24; titled ‘Landschaft mit Haus’); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, December 1989 - February 1990.

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Lot Essay

Heinrich Campendonk was a member of the German avant-garde artists’ group called Blaue Reiter, and he exhibited with them in 1911 and 1912. His closeness to his friends and fellow artists August Macke, Franz Marc, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky is evident in this expressive watercolour of 1913. With its mystic-oriental motifs, such as the figure on the balcony, the lunar shapes and the horse, it illustrates Campendonk’s interest in the spiritual spheres, inspired by the poet Else Lasker-Schüler and shared with Franz Marc. Works from this period, in which his cubist style matured, are considered to be Campendonk’s most important production.

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