Franz Wilhelm Seiwert - Standing Figure with bent Head - image-1

Lot 392 D

Franz Wilhelm Seiwert - Standing Figure with bent Head

Auction 932 - overview Cologne
06.12.2008, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 3.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 3.600 € (incl. premium)

Colour woodcut in red and black on thin, ivory coloured transparent paper 55.8 x 19.3 cm (64.5 x 28.3 cm), framed under glass. Signed and dated 1920 (in old German script). - Very rare, probably unique. - Somewhat wavy, a function of the paper and printing, with creases above and below. The margins and corners with traces of age and losses.
Bohnen 274

Provenance

Dr. Hans Schmitt-Rost, Cologne; private collection

Exhibitions

Cologne/Münster/Berlin/Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1978 (Kölnischer Kunstverein/Westfälischer Kunstverein/Kunstamt Kreuzberg Berlin and
Städt. Kunstssammlungen Ludwigshafen), Franz W. Seiwert 1894 - 1933, cat. nr. 274