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Monday, 19 November 2018, 06:00 pm

Walter Kurt Wiemken, Bürgerkrieg

Lot 54

Walter Kurt Wiemken, 1907-1940 (CH)

Bürgerkrieg, 1936

Tempera on cardboard.
H 415 mm W 520 mm.

Signed with the monogram and dated lower left: W.K.W., 36.
Verso signed, dated and titled:
Walter K. Wiemken, 1936, Bürgerkrieg.
With stamp of the estate: 1936/6.
(Frame).

CHF4'000 / 6'000
EUR3'600 / 5'400
USD4'000 / 6'000

Hammer Price: CHF 19'000

Annotation:

Provenance:
Estate of the artist;
Swiss private property.

Exhibitions:
Basel, Galerie Schulthess.
Walter Kurt Wiemken, 9. - 29. January 1937;
Basel, Kunsthalle.
Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, Walter Kurt Wiemken, 10. May - 2. June 1941;
Berne, Kunsthalle.
Walter Kurt Wiemken, Werner Hartmann, Richard Seewald, Willy Guggenheim, Max Truninger, Louis Conne, 1. February - 1. March 1942;
Lucerne, Kunstmuseum.
Walter Kurt Wiemken, Richard Seewald,
15. March - 5. April 1942;
Basel, Kunsthalle.
20 Jahre Gruppe 33, 17. October - 22. November 1953;
Zurich, Kunsthaus.
Walter Kurt Wiemken, 13. March - 19. April 1954;
Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich.
Fantastische Basler Malerei, 23. July - 4. September 1955;
Thun, Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun.
Walter Kurt Wiemken, Traum, Wirklichkeit und Tod, 18. June - 16. August 1981.

Literature:
Exhibition catalogue. Gedächtnis-Ausstellung Walter Kurt Wiemken.
Basel, Kunsthalle, 1941, No. 128;
Helene Sartorius/Claus Krieg.
Oeuvre-Katalog Walter Kurt Wiemken (1907-1940).
Basel, Holbein Verlag, 1942.
Page X, No. 403;
Exhibition catalogue. Walter Kurt Wiemken, Werner Hartmann, Richard Seewald, Willy Guggenheim, Max Truninger, Louis Conne.
Berne, Kunsthalle, 1942, No. 33;
Exhibition catalogue. Walter Kurt Wiemken 1907 - 1940, Richard Seewald.
Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, 1942. No. 80;
Exhibition catalogue. 20 Jahre Gruppe 33.
Basel, Kunsthalle, 1953. No. 275;
Exhibition catalogue. Walter Kurt Wiemken.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1954, No. 63;
Exhibition catalogue. Fantastische Basler Malerei.
Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, 1955. No. 61;
Rudolf Hanhart. Walter Kurt Wiemken, Das gesamte Werk. Basel, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, 1979. No. 859, illustration.