DRACHENFEST WEIMAR, 1922

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
3 May 2023
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© Courtesy of the artist's estate
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LUDWIG HIRSCHFELD-MACK

(German/Australian, 1893 - 1965)
DRACHENFEST WEIMAR, 1922

colour lithograph and ink on paper

9.0 x 12.5 cm (image) 10.5 x 15.5 cm (sheet)

inscribed with title within image lower left: DRACHENFEST WEIMAR

Estimate: 
$2,000 – $4,000
Sold for $6,750 (inc. BP) in Auction 74 - 3 May 2023, Melbourne
Provenance

The estate of the artist
Private collection, Italy

Exhibited

Bauhaus e visioni, Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano, Vienna, 17 March – 28 May 2000; Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna, Austria, 14 June – 22 October 2000 and Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany, 13 December 2000 – 22 April 2001, cat. 50 (as ‘Untitled (Kite Festival in Weimar)’)

Literature

Stasny, P., Ludwig Hirschfeld–Mack: Bauhaus e visioni, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2000, cat. 50, pp. 60, 61 (illus., as ‘Untitled (Kite Festival in Weimar)’), 173
Koepnick, G., and Stamm, R., The Bauhaus Postcards, Insel Verlag, Berlin, 2019, pp. 25 (illus.), 78