Erich Mueller-Kraus - Streik - image-1

Lot 336 D

Erich Mueller-Kraus - Streik

Auction 1110 - overview Cologne
01.06.2018, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 4.000 € - 4.500 €
Result: 14.880 € (incl. premium)

Erich Mueller-Kraus

Streik
1931

Watercolours over pencil (depcition 23.2 x 16.3 cm) on plain sketchbook drawing paper (margins perforated) 28.4 x 23.7 cm Framed under glass. Monogrammed and dated 'emk [joined] 31' within the depiction lower left and additionally monogrammed, dated and titled 'emk [joined] 31 Köln/ Streik' on verso. - Traces of age and adhesive in paper margins; overall browned.

The early work of the painter and graphic artist Erich Mueller-Kraus belonging to the German avantgarde of Informel after World War II, is hardly known, it was destroyed for the greatest part in 1943. He had studied at the legendary "Kölner Werkschulen". His oeuvre from the 1930s obviously reflects the affinity to the abstraction of the artists group "Kölner Progressive".

Provenance

Artist's estate; Galerie Glöckner, Cologne; Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions

Aachen 1980 (Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum der Stadt Aachen), Erich Mueller-Kraus. Arbeiten seit 1929, cat. no. 6