Gert Heinrich Wollheim - Portrait Dr. Friedrich Maase - image-1

Lot 464 D

Gert Heinrich Wollheim - Portrait Dr. Friedrich Maase

Auction 1090 - overview Cologne
31.05.2017, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €

Gert Heinrich Wollheim

Portrait Dr. Friedrich Maase
1968

Oil on plywood 121 x 90 cm Framed. Signed in brown lower centre within the depiction and barely legibly dated 'Wollheim 1968'. Verso with address and shipping information by the artist. - Professionally cleaned.

Posthumous portrait of Wollheim's friend, the lawyer Dr. Friedrich Maase (1978-1959) from Düsseldorf who had already commissioned Wollheim to paint portraits of himself and his wife around 1923 (cf. Euler Schmidt 47 and 48). Wollheim sent the present painting from New York to Düsseldorf to Maase's son Klaus (1903-2001), a former resistance fighter during National Socialism.

Catalogue Raisonné

Not recorded by Euler-Schmidt

Certificate

We would like to thank Michael Euler-Schmidt, Cologne, for confirmatory information.

Provenance

Estate Klaus Maase, Düsseldorf; Private collection, Hesse