Roter Mohn am Seeufer. Um 1905.
Oil on canvas.
Bottom left signed. With an older label on the reverse. 75 x 100 cm (29.5 x 39.3 in).

• One of the rare, large poppy fields in Karl Hagemeister's oeuvre.
• Particularly bright, high-contrast floral motif with the colors in an extraordinary intensity.
• Intimate, personal interpretation of the motif, a tendency that became popular at the turn of the century through Impressionism.
• Unusually delicate and airy application of paint for Hagemeister, a reference to the flowers' fragility.

Accomapnied by a written expertise from Dr. Hendrikje Warmt, Karl Hagemeister Archive & Catalog Raisonné, Berlin. The work will be included into the catalog raisonné with the number G 380.

PROVENANCE: Presumably: Brothers Heilbron, Berlin (on consignment 1912).
Collection Alfred Dressel, Berlin (until 1931, Rudolph Elsas, Berlin, Ocotber 12, 1931 and presumably anew offered on December 12, 1931, buyer not identifiable).
Gemälde-Galerie Abels, Cologne (at least from 1937, previous owner not identifiable).
Galerie Aenne Abels, Cologne (at least from 1950, presumably from teh above).
Kaufhof Aktiengesellschaft Kaufhalle GmbH Union Modegroßhandel GmbH (1955, with a label on the reverse).
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Meisterwerke alter und neuer Kunst aus der Ausstellung in der Gemälde-Galerie Abels, Cologne 1937, no p. (with illu.).

LITERATURE: Presumably: Gebrüder Heilbron, Berlin, Gemälde und Zeichnungen von Meistern des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, aus den Sammlungen des Herrn Lothar Meilinger, München, und eines bekannten Münchener Künstlers sowie aus anderem Privatbesitz, auction on October 10/11, 1912, lot 113.
Rudolph Elsas, Berlin, Ocotber 12, 1931, Wohnungs-Einrichtung der Villa Jasminweg 4 (Westend), lot 111 with illu. on plate 3 and a picture of the Alfred Dressel's dining room with Hagemeister's painting.
Presumably: Rudolph Elsas, Berlin, December 12, 1931, Gemälde und Teppich-Sammlung Arthur L.[owian], lot 24, no illu.