Rudolf Bauer
Prison drawing, 1937
Pencil on brown wrapping paper
H 12 W 15,5 cm (paper)
Unique piece
Bottom right with pencil with the artist's signet "RB".
€2,450.00
Further images
Geometric shapes and curved lines combine to form an abstract composition, possibly the idea of a landscape.
Rudolf Bauer (1889-1953): Member of the German Avant-Garde around Der Sturm with Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee and Franz Marc. A particularly intimate drawing, taken during his imprisonment in a Gestapo prison in 1937, when his 'Entarte art' was continued by the Nazis. This rare drawing shows the vulnerability and hope of an artist.
Provenance
Stanford Auctioneers, Phoenix, AZ, Auktion 13.10.2023, Lot 745
Sammlung Henning Lohner, Berlin