Oil on canvas 80.7 x 90.5 cm, framed. Signed and dated Theo von Brockhusen 1908 in reddish brown lower left. - With an old paper label on reverse on upper stretcher member, therein inscribed "Dünenlandschaft 1908/Theo von Brockhusen [underlined]/ ausgestellt in der Galerie/Ferdinand Möller/Berlin" (Dune Landscape 1908/.../exhibited in Galerie/Ferdinand Möller/Berlin) in black pen . - The canvas with needle-size perforations in the corners, apparently due to painting technique. - With scattered minor retouches.
Ferdinand Mölller had opened his Berlin gallery in October 1918 and arranged a first solo exhibition for Theo von Brockhusen in 1919. Brockhusen, whom Möller highly respected, had been shown before by Paul Cassirer. After Brockhusen's death, Möller attended his artistic estate.
Provenance
Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin (acquired there); formerly private collection, Rhineland
Literature
Franz Servaes, Theo von Brockhusen, Blätter der Galerie Ferdinand Möller, nr. 4, June 1929, Berlin 1929, see catalogue of paintings p. 7 ff., without ill.; Gerhard Leistner, Theo von Brockhusen, Ein Maler zwischen Impressionismus und Expressionismus, exhib. cat. Regensburg/Berlin 1999/2000, "Theo von Brockhusen, Auf den Spuren des Berliner Sezessionisten", p. 28
Exhibitions
Berlin 1929 (Galerie Ferdinand Möller), Theo von Brockhusen, [probably] cat. nr. 29