Carlo Mense
Landschaft mit barmherzigem Samariter (Russische Winterlandschaft)
1921/1922
Oil on canvas. 78.2 x 78.3 cm. Framed. Signed 'C. Mense' in black lower right. - With marginal defects and frame-related slight light-stain.
The painting once belonged to the collection of Walter Schwarzenberg (1885-1964), the founder of the Brussels gallery "Le Centaure" and publisher of the eponymous magazine. Schwarzenberg played a central role in establishing the German and French avant-garde, especially Surrealism. For financial reasons, Schwarzenberg had his collection auctioned off at the Galerie Georges Giroux on 1 and 2 February 1932.
Catalogue Raisonné
Drenker-Nagels 52
Provenance
Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich; Hofmann Collection, Tokio (1923); Walter Schwarzenberg Collection (1885-1964), Brussels; Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels 1932 ("Vente Collection Walter Schwarzenberg"), lot 323 (label verso); Private ownership, Belgium
Literature
Oskar Beyer, Die unendliche Landschaft. Über religiöse Naturmalerei und ihre Meister, Berlin 1922, plate 31; Ostdeutsche Monatshefte, vol. 3, 1922, issue 9, p. 307; Der Cicerone, vol. 15, 1923, p. 381; Klara Drenker-Nagels, Carlo Mense. Sein Leben und sein Werk von 1909 bis 1939, Cologne 1993, p. 104-106, with ill.
Exhibitions
Brussels 1931 (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Exposition de l'Art Vivant