DRACHENFEST WEIMAR, 1922

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
3 May 2023
86

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

Estimate: 
$2,000 – $4,000
Sold for $7,977 (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. 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