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Lot description
Signed and dated 'Georg Muche 1913' in black lower left. The four works offered here from Georg Muche's early and late period (lots 187, 188, 271, 272) come from the Bauhaus artist's most extensive collection, from Kuno Kallnbach from Tann/Rhön. The two works created in 1913 are among Muche's earliest attempts at non-objective painting and are entirely influenced by Futurism and Cubism. “With the earliest abstract figures from 1913 in Kallbach's collection, representational associations of a head in cubist simultaneity of enface and profile arise less easily than the predominant impression of floating spatiality of interpenetrating, overlapping, detached areas of colour [Lot 187]. The other painting [lot 188] contains in nuce both the strict geometry of the stained-glass window-like paintings from 1915 and the grid paintings from 1916 to 1920, as well as the floating light space of the luminous perpendiculars and the parables of creation from around 1916 [see Lempertz Auction 1134, 31.5.2019, lot 280].” (Diether Schmidt. in: Georg Muche_Leise sagen, op.cit., p. 9f.) It is not surprising that Herwarth Walden became aware of the young artist, who moved from Munich to Berlin in 1914 and exhibited several times in his gallery 'Der Sturm' in the following years. In the 1920s, Muche's further development as a master at the Bauhaus led him away from abstraction and towards a lyrical representationalism.