Otto Freundlich
Heinrich Maria Davringhausen: Der Akrobat

Heinrich Maria Davringhausen: Der Akrobat
DAVRINGHAUSEN, HEINRICH MARIA
1894 Aachen - 1970 Cagnes-sur-Mer

Title: Der Akrobat.
Date: Ca. 1920.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 178 x 99cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: H. Davringhausen (illegible).
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.

We are grateful for the artist estate, cologne, for the kind support.

A loan request has been submitted for the work offered from the Kunsthalle Mannheim for the planned exhibition "Die Neue Sachlichkeit - Ein Jahrhundertjubiläum", from 22.11.2024 to 9.03. 2025.

Provenance:
- Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg (label)
- Private collection North Germany

Exhibitions:
- Galerie am Rhein, Cologne 1971
- Städtisches Suermondt-Museum, Aachen 1972, cat. no. 18
- Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg 1973, cat. no. 15 (ill. 27)
- Städtisches Museum Simeonstift, Trier 1974, cat. no. 12
- Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 1974
- Hayward Gallery, London 1978/79, cat. no. 26 (ill. p.52)
- Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 1993/94, cat. no. 158 (Farbt.)
- Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren 1995
- Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 2001
- Ubu Gallery, New York 2004
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 2004
- Kunsthalle Emden, 2015

Literature:
- Eimert, Dorothea: Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, 1894-1970 - Monographie und
Werkverzeichnis, Cologne 1995, cat. rais. no. 128, p. 241, ill.
- Anonym: Frühe Bilder von Heinrich Maria Davringhausen. In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung, 27.02.1971, ill.
- Heusinger von Waldegg, Joachim: H.M. Davringhausen 1894-1970. Monographie mit Werkkatalog 1912-1932, Bonn 1977, cat. rais. no. 76, ill
- Nannen, Henri: Bilder, die ich liebe, aus der Sammlung und von Sammlerfreunden. Emden, 1989, p. 93, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Der kühle Blick, Realismus der zwanziger Jahre in Europa und Amerika, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 2001, p. 134, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Neue Sachlichkeit, New Objectivity in Weimar Germany, Ubu Gallery, New York 2004, p. 25, ill.

- Large-format museum painting between neo-objectivity and magical realism
- From Davringhausen's important Munich period
- Impressive international exhibition history
- Together with Carlo Mense, Alexander Kanoldt and Georg Schrimpf, Davringhausen is regarded as a representative of the Munich group of New Objectivity artists.

Estimated shipping costs for this lot:
Arrangement after the auction.

Explanations to the Catalogue