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Löwengard, Kurt
1895 Hamburg - 1940 London.
«Kirche und Stadt (church and town)» from «Das Neue Hamburg».
1923. Woodcut on chamois cotton paper by «Johann Wilhelm [Zanders]» (Watermark). Signed lower right. Verso on the back board a printed collection label handwritten inscribed with the work's data and the provenance.
H 24,8,
H 31,5,
Originally included in «Das Neue Hamburg», published by Karl Lorenz, Hamburg 1923. One of 100 copies on cotton paper within a total edition of 450 works. Printed by Druckereigesellschaft Hartung & Co. m.b.H., Hamburg for the Gemeinschaftsverlag Hamburgischer Künstler.
Kurt Löwengard studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar and was one of the most esteemed members of the Hamburger Sezession. Due to his Jewish faith, he was subjected to increasing repressive measures from 1933 onwards, which pushed him to flee to London in 1939. He died seven months after his arrival, weakened by existential worries, of a serious illness.
In Löwengard's Hamburg period he produced expressive woodcuts and linocuts, especially for expressionist publications such as «Die Rote Erde» and «Das Neue Hamburg».
Provenance: according to the consignor purchased at Heuser & Grethe, Hamburg, November 1994; since then private collection Hamburg und Markgräflerland.
Catalogue raisonné: Bruhns 1923 Gr7.
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