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240 - Joseph Fassbender

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€4,000 - 6,000

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35.7%

Joseph Fassbender JuJu (Testudo) 1957 Gobelin wool tapestry with the woven initials "NGM" of the Nürnberger Gobelin Manufaktur. 147.5 x 207.5 cm. Woven signature and date in black in the tapestry. Haupenthal 250 Provenance Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft; loan to Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, inv. no. 25/53 Exhibitions I.a. Nuremberg 1957 (Fränkische Galerie am Marientor), Joseph Fassbender, cat. no. 124; Hannover 1961 (Kestner-Gesellschaft), Joseph Fassbender, cat. no. 62; Amsterdam 1961 (Stedelijk Museum), Joseph Fassbender, cat. no. 56; Nuremberg 1966, 25 Jahre Nürnberger Gobelin-Manufaktur, cat. no. 20, ill. and no. 21, detail col. ill.; Cologne 1968 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Joseph Fassbender, cat. no. 17; Osnabrück 1973 (Kulturgeschichtliches Museum), Wandteppiche der Nürnberger Gobelin-Manufaktur, n. pag., detail col. ill.; Bonn 1973 (Reinisches Landesmuseum), Joseph Fassbender. Ausstellung zum 70. Geburtstag, cat. no. 124; Ludwigshafen 1975 (Städt. Kunstsammlungen), Tapisserie in Deutschland nach 1945, p. 40f.; Cologne 1988-89 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), cat. no. 250 with ill.; Bonn 2005 (Rheinisches Landesmuseum), Joseph Fassbender. 1903-1974, p. 79 with ill p. 82 Literature Exh. cat. Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1957 - Sonderschau "Kunst am Bau", n. pag.; Günter Aust, Joseph Fassbender, Recklinghausen 1961, with ill. p. 46 (with the title "Testudo"); J. Lurcat: Das große Buch der Tapisserie, Wien/Düsseldorf 1965, p. 228 A tapestry featuring a tortoise (Latin: Testudo), created in 1957 for the Kulturkreis des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie and specifically for its boardroom. The title ‘JuJu’ “refers to an adventure story by the Africa specialist Herbert Kaufmann, which Fassbender had illustrated in 1956: "Der Teufel tanzt im JuJu-Busch". The tapestry was commissioned for the 11th International Triennale in Milan” (Thorsten Krause, in: Fassbender, cat. Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 2005, p. 79, ill. p. 82).

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Auction details

Day Sale - Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturday, December 5
11:00 AM
Neumarkt, 3
50667 Cologne, Germany

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