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137 - Carlo Mense
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Carlo Mense Portrait Max Nienhaus Circa 1916/1917 Oil on artist's board. 60.8 x 41.4 cm, top rounded. In original frame. Monogrammed 'CM' in yellow lower right. Signed 'C. Mense' lower right on the frame. - Minor marginal defects. Drenker-Nagels 26 Provenance Max Nienhaus, Wiesbaden; private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia Exhibitions Bonn 1979 (Städtisches Kunstmuseum), Die Rheinischen Expressionisten. August Macke und seine Malerfreunde, cat. no. 346; Cologne/Wuppertal 1993 (Stadtmuseum/Von der Heydt-Museum), Carlo Mense. Sein Leben und sein Werk von 1909 bis 1939, colour ill. p. 73 Literature Klara Drenker-Nagels, Carlo Mense. Kunstentwicklung zwischen 1915 und 1919, in: Carlo Mense. Der Fluss des Lebens, exh. cat. August Macke-Haus, Bonn 2000, p. 115-117, ill. p. 117 Max Nienhaus was married to Carlo Mense's sister, Klara Nienhaus-Mense. He also painted a portrait of her at the same time - the portraits were possibly intended as counterparts.
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