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Lot 230 D

Hans Grundig - Gruppenportrait

Auction 1234 - overview Cologne
02.12.2023, 11:00 - Day Sale - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 7.560 € (incl. premium)

Hans Grundig

Gruppenportrait
1950s

Oil on canvas. 81 x 80.5 cm. Framed. Signed 'H. GRUNDIG' in brown upper left.

According to Fritz Löffler, Dresden, the painting is part of an unfinished anti-nuclear war triptych. In the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin is the left wing with the title "Ächtet die Atombombe!" from 1954 (Inv. No. A IV 53). It is possible that our painting is the right wing. Günter Feist's Grundig monograph from 1976 contains a related drawing depicting an anti-nuclear war demonstration.

Provenance

Collection Brauner-Runge, Eferding; Private ownership, Vienna; Lempertz Cologne, auction 607, 5 June 1985, lot 339; Galerie J.H. Bauer, Hanover; Private ownership, North Rhine-Westphalia