▣ Conrad Felixmüller (German, 1897-1977)

 

Conrad Felixmuller is one of the leading figures in what is sometimes called the 'second generation' of Expressionists whose work coalesced around the revolutionary period in Germany following the First World War. Together with his much-celebrated portraits of daily life in the mining district of the Ruhrgebiet in the early 1920s, it is Felixmüller's portraits of himself and his family from this same period that constitute his best-known and most important body of work. 

Representing a counterbalance to the powerful and yet depressing scenes of hardship and depravation found in his Ruhr pictures, Felixmüller's portraits of his family and the idyll of his home-life were intended to provide a positive alternative: one that proclaimed the simple value and harmony of his own progressive proletarian lifestyle. <Source : Christie's>


  • Selbstbildnis (1915)


[ 1915, Oil on canvas, 51 x 35.5 cm. <Source : Ketterer Kunst's> ]



  • Self-Portrait with Son Titus (1921)


[ 1922, Oil on canvas. <Source : VG Bild-Kunst's> ]



  • Selbstbild (Kopf) (1922)


[ 1922, Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.5 cm. <Source : Christie's> ]



  • Selbstbildnis mit meiner Frau Londa und meinem Sohn Titus (Self-Portrait with my Wife Londa and my Son Titus) (1923)


[ Dresden in 1923, Gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper, 64.4 x 50.2 cm. <Source : Sotheby's> ]



  • Der Kindermaler (1925)


[ 1925, Oil on canvas, 75 x 78 cm. <Source : Christie's> ]



  • Selbstbildnis mit meinem Sohn Luca (1927)


[ 1927, Oil on canvas, 85.7 x 75.4 cm. <Source : Christie's> ]



  • Selbstbildnis (mit Palette) (1929)


[ 1929, Oil on canvas. <Source : Berlinischen Galerie's> ]



  • Selbst, Blumen Malend (Stilleben mit dem Maler Selbst) (1931)


[ 1931, Oil on canvas, 75.5 x 90 cm. <Source : MutualArt's> ]



  • Selbstbildnis mit Titus (1933)


[ 1933, Oil on canvas. <Source : Berlinischen Galerie's> ]



  • Selbstbildnis, Malend (1934)


[ 1934, Oil on board, 27.6 x 21 cm. <Source : Lempertz's> ]



  • Selbst mit Luca vor der Staffelei (1935)


[ 1935, Oil on canvas, 85.2 x 74.6 cm. <Source : Christie's> ]



  • Selbstbildnis mit nackter frau (Self portrait with naked woman) (1936)


[ 1936, Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 45 cm. <Source : Bellmans's> ]




  • Selbstbildnis, mit malender Hand (1939)


[ 1939, Oil on canvas, 28.6 x 17.4 cm. <Source : Ketterer Kunst's> ]




  • Selbstbildnis (1954)


[ 1954, Oil on canvas. <Foto : Kreis Unna> ]




  • Ölstudie Selbstbildnis (1955)


 [ 1955, Oil on wood, 31 x 18.5 cm. <Source :  Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen's> ]



  • Selbstbildnis mit malender Hand, Im Hintergrund Werkstatt (1966)


[ 1966, Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 75 cm. <Source : Lempertz's> ]



  • Selbstbildnis am Zeichenbrett (1967)


[ 1967, Watercolor on paper, 62.5 x 44 cm. <Source : Karl & Faber's> ]



  • Selbstbildnis - mit malender Hand (1970)


[ 1970, Oil on canvas, 60 x 45.4 cm. <Source : Christie's> ]




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