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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 3 May 2023  |  Melbourne

Lot 86
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
(German/Australian, 1893 - 1965)
DRACHENFEST WEIMAR, 1922

colour lithograph and watercolour on paper 

12.5 x 8.5 cm (image)



Estimate:
$2,000 – $4,000


Lot sold: $7,977 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

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

colour lithograph and watercolour on paper 

12.5 x 8.5 cm (image)

signed lower right below image: L. Mack
dated lower left below image: 1922

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. 49 (as ‘Untitled (Kite Festival in Weimar)’)

Literature

Stasny, P., Ludwig Hirschfeld–Mack: Bauhaus e visioni, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2000, cat. 49, pp. 60 (illus., as ‘Untitled (Kite Festival in Weimar)’), 61, 173
Koepnick, G., and Stamm, R., The Bauhaus Postcards, Insel Verlag, Berlin, 2019, pp. 24 (illus.), 78