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2048
Löwengard, Kurt
1895 Hamburg - 1940 London.
«Haus Arnhold - Dresden (house Arnhold - Dresden)».
Watercolour on laid paper. Signed lower right, dated (19)35 and titled.
H 38,
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.
The house Arnhold can be traced back to the Jewish Arnhold banking family, which at the time ran one of the largest private banks in Germany in Dresden. After its forced sale in 1935, the owners emigrated to New York and opened a new credit institution there.
Provenance: private collection Hamburg and Markgräflerland.
Catalogue raisonné: not mentioned by Bruhns.
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