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3497 - Wiemken, Walter Kurt
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CHF 1,760 - 2,200 (€1,900 - 2,400)Sale fees
Wiemken, Walter Kurt 1907 Basel – 1940 Castel San Pietro Landscape near Mendrisio. 1933 Tempera on paper Signed and dated lower right: Wiemken 33 Framed 35 × 43 cm (sheet size) Karl Schaub Collection, Basel; Galerie Carzaniga, Basel; private collection, Switzerland Helene Sartorius/Claus Krieg, Catalogue Raisonné, in: Georg Schmid, Walter Kurt Wiemken 1907–1940, Basel 1942, no. 359; Rudolf Hanhart, Walter Kurt Wiemken. The Complete Works, Zurich 1979, p. 305, no. 816 (with illustration) Memorial Exhibition Walter Kurt Wiemken, Kunsthalle Basel, May 10–June 2, 1942, no. 90 or 91 Walter Kurt Wiemken is considered one of the most distinctive representatives of Swiss Modernism during the interwar period. His work evolved from expressive landscapes and figurative paintings to compositions with an increasingly surrealist character. The 1933 painting “Landscape near Mendrisio” illustrates this development through a free, gestural style in which simplified houses and landscape forms are combined with nearly abstract areas of color. The dark composition, punctuated by individual bold color accents, lends the Ticino landscape a distinctive character. Auction Date: November 28, 2026 Approximate Auction Time: 6:23 p.m. CET
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Autumn Auction 2026 (Day 4 of 4)Auction house
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