KANOLDT, ALEXANDER1881 Karlsruhe - 1939 Berlin


Title: Studie San Gimignano.
Date: 1913.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 40.5 x 50.5cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: KANOLDT 1913. Inscribed verso on the stretcher: KANOLDT. 1913. XIII. 80. STUDY. SAN GIMIGNANO.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 37th auction, 3rd/4th May 1962, lot 198
- Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 306th auction, 5th Dec. 2006, lot 118
- Auktionshaus Stahl, Hamburg, 295th auction, 12.9.2009, lot 208
- Private collection, Northern Germany

Literature:
- Koch, Michael: Alexander Kanoldt, 1881-1939 - catalogue raisonné of paintings, Munich 2018, cat. rais. no. WV 13.10, Ill.


- Alexander Kanoldt is one of the most important representatives of New Objectivity
- His works are represented in the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others
- Early, cubist-influenced work of the later famous architectural landscapes from Italy.