Oil on canvas 76.8 x 60.7 cm.The verso with an uncompleted composition with couple.
The upper member of the chassis with three paper labels: one with handwritten "Eigentümer" (= "owner") and the stamped address of "PROF. DR. W. DEXEL/ BRAUNSCHWEIG", one simple paper label with a handwritten inscription by the artist in black ink 76 x 60, Blumenbild, Campendonk - Seeshaupt, 800 Mark, as well as a printed and handwritten exhibition label of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld from 1960 (titled "Blumenbild", dated "1917" and described "Privatb. Braunschweig").
Firmenich Ö 724, ill.
Catalogue Raisonné
Firmenich Ö 724 with illus.
Provenance
Collection Dr. Braukmann, Jena; Walter Dexel, Braunschweig; Thomas Dexel, Braunschweig; private collection, Belgium
Literature
Ja! Stimmen des Arbeitsrates für Kunst in Berlin, Charlottenburg 1919, no. 23 with ill. ("Blumenbild"); Georg Biermann, Heinrich Campendonk, Junge Kunst, vol. 17, Leipzig 1921, with ill. ("Blumenbild 1917"); Paul Wember, Heinrich Campendonk, Krefeld 1889 - 1957 Amsterdam, Krefeld 1960 (with ill. index), no. 24 with ill. (there "1917" dated); Andrea Firmenich, Heinrich Campendonk 1889-1957, Leben und expressionistisches Werk, Recklinghausen 1989, p. 372, notes to no. 724
Exhibitions
Braunschweig 1952 (Kunstverein Haus Salve Hospes), Kunst der Gegenwart aus Braunschweiger Privatbesitz, no. 9; Krefeld 1960 (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum Krefeld/ Haus Lange), Heinrich Campendonk, no. 24 (with exhib. label on reverse); Dortmund 1960 (Museum am Ostwall), Heinrich Campendonk, without cat.; Frankfurt Nov.1960 (Kunstverein), Heinrich Campendonk; Berlin 1961 (Nationalgalerie in der Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg), Der Sturm - Herwarth Walden und die Europäische Avantgarde, Berlin 1912-1932, no. 37; Krefeld 2007/2008, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, on private loan