SLEVOGT, MAX1868 Landshut - 1932 Neukastel


Title: Der Jäger - Fred Griesinger.
Date: 1902.


. Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 100 x 80cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Slevogt 02.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Private collection Rhineland-Palatinate (until 1968)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
- Villa Grisebach, Berlin, auction 30.5.2014, lot 412
- Private ownership Germany

Exhibitions:
- Max-Slevogt-Galerie im Schloss Villa Ludwigshöhe, Edenkoben/Pfalz (long-standing loan)

Literature:
- Imiela, Hans-Jürgen: Max Slevogt. Eine Monographie, Karlsruhe 1968, p. 376, no. 12
- Rosenhagen, Hans: Max Slevogt, in: Die Kunst für alle, Munich 15.12.1905, XXI. volume, issue 6, pp. 129/134, ill.


- Slevogt was, alongside Liebermann and Corinth, one of the extraordinary representatives of German impressionism
- The skilled direction of light and dynamic brush strokes give the painting lively energy
- A master work of portrait painting that conveys an aura of romance and adventure.