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The German painter and printmaker Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) developed a practice that brought painting and printmaking together with the design of interiors and the objects within them. He trained at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, completing his studies in 1895, and that year acquired a farm in Worpswede, which he named Barkenhoff. There he furnished the interiors in the Jugendstil style and designed the furniture, hangings and carpets himself: the house thus became a place where his decorative work took concrete form. With his fellow artists from Worpswede, he took part in the group exhibitions at Munich’s Glaspalast in 1895 and 1896. Early in his career, his Pre-Raphaelite inspiration was expressed in subjects transposed into the landscapes of his homeland. In Winter Tales (1897), the Magi, dressed as kings but depicted with the appearance of local peasants, make their way through a snow-covered landscape in Worpswede. Spring, also dated 1897, is likewise associated with this Pre-Raphaelite vein.
The Concert (1905) shows friends gathered to make music on the terrace of Barkenhoff. In 1904–1905, the Senate of Bremen commissioned him to furnish and decorate rooms on the upper floor of the town hall. A later work, Stillleben mit Tomaten (1922), is an oil on cardboard measuring 18 × 21.5 cm; the sale notice records the monogram and date «HV / 22» in the lower left, traced in oil. From 1917, Vogeler adopted radical pacifism, and both his painting and his prints took on Expressionist inflections. In the summer of 1919, he founded a commune and a workers’ school at Barkenhoff with Marie Griesbach and a few friends. On his first trip to Soviet Russia in 1923, he went to Moscow, where he remained until September 1924 and taught at the university. The biographical notice states that he emigrated to the USSR in 1931. He died in 1942 near Karaganda.
This profile brings together identity references for Heinrich Vogeler and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Kornfeld · Ketterer · Lempertz
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Oil on cardboard
Stillleben mit Tomaten
Oil on cardboard
Catalogue period : 2022-06-03
Published result : 4300 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 3000
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Öl auf starkem Malkarton
Auction date : 2017-12-01
Published result : 10610 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 10000
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Catalogue period : 2015-12-03 — 2015-12-05
Published result : 2750 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 1000
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Melusine
Federzeichnung
Auction date : 2004-10-29
Published result : 1287 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 400
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Der Riese Goliath
Federzeichnung
Auction date : 2004-10-29
Published result : 1287 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 400
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Paar
Tuschfederzeichnung
Auction date : 2004-10-29
Published result : 527 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 300
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Russisches Haus
Kreide
Auction date : 2004-10-29
Published result : 293 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 350
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