Auction 110 - Tag 3
Fine Art, Ceramics, Metalware & Sculptures
By Auktionshaus Mehlis
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May 27, 2023
Hammerstraße 30, 8523 Plauen, Germany
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This is session 3 of 3 of our 110th auction
featuring over 1300 items in the categories fine art, ceramics, metalware, sculptures and more! Please visit our webpage to find the current session schedule with the respective categories and further information.
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LOT 4152:
Albert Hennig, Abstraction
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Sold for: €150
Start price:
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150
Buyer's Premium: 27%
VAT: 19%
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Albert Hennig, Abstraction
Composition reminiscent of a row of houses, monotype on strong paper, signed and dated "AHennig (19)70" lower right, mounted on backing board, sheet measures approx. 15 x 16 cm. Artist's info: Germ. Painter, photographer and graphic artist (1907 Leipzig - 1998 Zwickau), studied 1932-33 with a scholarship at the Bauhaus Dessau/Berlin with Joost Schmidt, Mies van der Rohe, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Josef Albers, afterwards unemployed, 1935-45 conscripted as construction worker, after 1945 founding member of the group "Bildender Künstler" at the Kulturbund Zwickau, from 1952 member of the Verband Bildender Künstler (VBK) of the GDR, because of disagreement with dogmatic cultural functionaries, 1952-72 worked as a concrete builder, in his spare time produced a significant body of work in the Bauhaus tradition, from 1972 freelance and increasing recognition of his work in the GDR too, received numerous awards, including the Max Pechstein Prize and the Federal Cross of Merit, worked in Zwickau , source: Vollmer, Eisold "Maler in der DDR" and Internet.
