0394
Albert Birkle*
(Berlin 1900 - 1986 Salzburg)
„Nächtliche Leipziger Straße, Berlin“
1926
pastel on cardboard
99 x 69,5 cm
signed on the lower right: A. Birkle
Provenance
1977 Neue Münchner Galerie Dr. Hiepe, directly from the artist;
private collection, Germany
Exhibition
1927 Berlin, Galerie Hinrichsen, special exhibition Albert Birkle, no. 3 (without ill.);
1929 Ulm, Städtisches Museum, collective exhibition Albert Birkle;
1980 Salzburg, Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, Albert Birkle, 11 July-07 September, cat.-no. 14 (with ill.);
1993 Schloß Kißlegg, Expressiver Realismus, 13 May - 30 September, cat.-no. 7 (ill.);
1994 Paris, La Grande Galerie du Centre Georges Pompidou, 10 February- 09 May, La ville, art et architecture en Europe, 1870-1993, colour ill. p. 2 (label verso);
1995 Ismaning, Kallmann Museum, Expressiver Realismus-collection Hierling;
1996 Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, La ville moderne en Europe 1870-1996, 24 July -16 September, no. 127, with ill. (label verso);
2001 Salzburg, Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, "Albert Birkle", 16 February-29 April; Rottweil, Dominikanermuseum, 19. October-02 December; Kißlegg, Museum Expressiver Realismus, Neues Schloß Kißlegg, 13 May -30 September, cat.-no. 11, ill. 9;
2006 Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Die Eroberung der Straße von Monet to Grosz, 15 June - 03 September, with ill., without no.;
2013 Rosenheim, Städtische Galerie, „Farbe als Antwort - Expressiver Realismus - Sammlung Hierling“, 25 January-07 April;
2009-2018 Schweinfurt, permanent presentation, Kunsthalle Schweinfurt
Literature
Hellweg, vol. 7 no. 22, Essen 25 November 1927, p. 371, ill.;
Die Buchgemeinde. Monatshefte für Literatur, Kunst and Wissenschaft, vol. 4, 1927/28, no. 1, July 1927, ill. p. 35;
Westermanns Monatshefte, 73 year, vol. 146, part 1 and 2, March 1929 - August 1929, p. 81 ff., ill. p. 88;
catalogue „Der Maler Albert Birkle“. Werke 1921-1933, Neue Münchner Galerie 1977, ill.;
Deutsche Volkszeitung, Düsseldorf, 02. 10. 1980 (ill.);
Alte und moderne Kunst, no. 175, Salzburg 1981, ill. p. 71;
Rudolf Pfefferkorn, Albert Birkle. Leben and Werk, Hamburg 1983, colour-ill.17;
Sylvia Kraker, Albert Birkle 1900-1986 mit einem Werkkatalog, Innsbruck 1992, cat.-no. 269, ill. 53, p. 197;
Nikolaus Schaffer, Albert Birkle, Katalog zur Sonderausstellung im Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg 2001, cat.-no. 11, ill. 9, p. 50
We are grateful to Roswita and Viktor Pontzen, archive Albert Birkle, for their kind assistance. The work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné under the preliminary number 779.
Estimate: € 80.000 - 120.000
Auction is closed.