Conrad Felixmüller
1897 - 1977
Arbeiterpaar (Ehepaar Schnabel). 1920.
Drypoint (in brown).
Signed, monogrammed in the plate. One of 100 copies on wove paper within an edition of 125 copies. On wove paper. 28.5 x 27.5 cm (11.2 x 10.8 in). Sheet: 41 x 30,9 cm (16,1 x 12,1 in).

The aforementioned edition of 125 copies appears in the second portfolio of the third volume of Die Schaffenden (with the dry stamp). Published by Paul Westheim at Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Weimar. [AW].

• Impressive portraits of workers from the artist's most productive period.
• Striking prints with bold lines and brownish plate tones.
• In the 1920s, Felixmüller attained his characteristic, neo-objective visual language.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin (since 1987: Bassenge).

LITERATURE: Gerhart Söhn (ed.), Conrad Felixmüller. Das graphische Werk 1912-1977, Düsseldorf 1987, CR no. 220 b.
Gerhart Söhn, Handbuch der Original-Graphik in deutschen Zeitschriften, Mappenwerken, Kunstbüchern und Katalogen (HDO) 1890-1933, volume VII, Düsseldorf 1998, CR no. 72710-10.
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Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, May 22/23, 1987, lot 5369.

In good condition. Slightly browned along the outer edges of the sheets and slightly soiled in places. Isolated traces from the making. The edges of the sheets are slightly irregular, with a tiny loss of paper at the bottom left. The surface of the paper is slightly roughened along the right edge of the sheet.