Carlo Mense
Bildnis Lisa Matern. Verso: Bildnis Davringhausen
1922 resp. circa 1919
Oil on canvas 85.5 x 65.5 cm Framed. Signed recto in red and dated 'c mense 22' lower right. - Individual retouches recto, narrow and circumferential, partially directly along stretcher.
Catalogue Raisonné
Drenker-Nagels 55 / 56 (illus. p. 82 / 100, "whereabouts unknown")
Provenance
Galerie Goltz, Munich (1922, gallery label for "Davringhausen" verso); Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg 1968, auction 168; Galleria del Levante, Munich/Milan (1972); Private possession, Italy
Literature
Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. 50, 1922, p. 65 with illus.; Joachim Heusinger v. Waldegg, Leo Breuer und Heinrich M. Davringhausen - Zwei rheinische Maler, in: Das Rheinische Landesmuseum Bonn 1977, issue 2, p. 33, illus. 24
Exhibitions
Bonn 1961 (Städtisches Kunstmuseum), Carlo Mense, cat. no. 5; Berlin 1962 (Rathaus Charlottenburg), Berliner Festwochen - Carlo Mense, cat. no.10; Bologna 1972 (Gallerie d'arte Stivani), Nuova Oggettività 1918-1933, illus. 14; Milan 1972 (Rotonda di Via Besana), Il Realismo in Germania, illus. 77; St. Etienne 1974 (Musée d'Art et d'Industrie), Réalismes en Allemagne 1918-1933, cat. no. 77, illus.; Bonn 1976 (Rheinisches Landesmuseum), Die zwanziger Jahre im Porträt, cat. no 74 with illus.; London 1978/1979 (Hayward Gallery), Neue Sachlichkeit and German Realism of the Twenties, cat. no. 183 with illus.