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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 2, 2021 | Koller Auktionen | Zurich | SWISS ART | 3052 | $****** - ****** | Circus Knie Menagerie |
paintings
42 x 64 cm (16.54 x 25.2 in)
Oil on board
Signed and dated lower left: Ad. Dietrich 1927
- Galerie Bettie Thommen, Basel (label verso).
- Swiss private collection, acquired from the above gallery.
- Paris 1937, Les maîtres populaires de la réalité, Salle Royale, Paris, until 8.9.1937, no. 181 (the exhibition organised by the Musée de Grenoble was subsequently shown at the Kunsthaus Zürich).
- Schaffhausen 1952, Adolf Dietrich. Jubiläumsausstellung zu seinem 75. Geburtstag, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, 12.10.-16.11.1952, no. 23.
- Chur 1953, Adolf Dietrich, Kunsthaus Chur, 26.4.-25.5.1953, no. 11.
- Winterthur 1953, Adolf Dietrich, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 1.3.-12.4.1953, no. 27.
- Zurich 1957, Adolf Dietrich 1877-1957. Gedächtnisausstellung, Kunsthaus Zürich, 17.10-30.11.1957, no. 56, ill. 10.
- Baden-Baden/Frankfurt a. M./Hannover 1961, Das naive Bild der Welt, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 2.7.-4.9.1961; Historisches Museum, Frankfurt a. M., 16.9.-19.10.1961; Kunstverein Hannover, 29.10.-10.12.1961, no. 49, ill. p. 117.
- Frauenfeld 1962, Adolf Dietrich. Gemälde, Kunstverein Frauenfeld, 22.9.-12.10.1962, no. 36.
- Rotterdam 1964, De Lusthof der Naïeven, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, 10.7.-6.9.1964, no. 55, (with ill.).
- Winterthur 1967, Gedächtnisausstellung Adolf Dietrich, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 22.1.-26.2.1967, no. 53.
- Zurich 1973, 50 Jahre Kunsthandelverband der Schweiz. Jubiläumsausstellung mit Werken des 15.-20. Jahrhunderts aus öffentlichem und privatem Besitz, Kunsthaus Zürich, 15.9.-11.11.1973, no. 134.
- Munich 1974-75, Die Kunst der Naiven. Themen und Beziehungen, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1.11.1974-12.1.1975, no. 410, ill. p. 498.
- Zurich 1975, Die Kunst der Naiven. Themen und Beziehungen, Kunsthaus Zürich, 30.1.-31.3.1975, no. P 9, ill. 307, p. 426 (transfer from Munich).
- Frauenfeld 1977, Adolf Dietrich 1877-1957. Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag, Thurgauische Kunstsammlungen, Bernerhaus und Villa Sonnenberg, Frauenfeld, 10.9.-13.11.1977, no. 38.
- Winterthur 1979, Neue Sachlichkeit und Surrealismus in der Schweiz 1915-1940, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, no. 82.
- Warth 1994, Adolf Dietrich. Seine Themen. Sein Leben, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, 4.9.-20.11.1994 (label verso).
- Adolf Dietrich in Berlingen, in: Typographische Monatsblätter, vol. 2, Heft 1, January 1934, p. 21 (with ill.).
- Karl Hoenn: Adolf Dietrich, Frauenfeld and Leipzig 1942, p. 79 (with ill. no. 41).
- Adolf Dietrich 1877-1957, in: special issue of "Du", vol. 18, no. 1, Zurich 1958 (ill. no. 21).
- Albert Dasnoy: Exégèse de la Peinture naïve, Brussels 1970, p. 87 (with ill.).
- Heinrich Ammann: Adolf Dietrich, Frauenfeld 1977, p. 87, 126 (with ill., colour illustration on book jacket).
- Max Vertos: Der Waldarbeiter, der Meisterwerke malte, in: die Tat, Zurich, 7.10.1977, p. 17 (with ill.).
- Karl H. Silomon: Adolf Dietrich, in: Des Bücherfreundes Fahrten ins Blaue, number 17, Berlin (without year), p. 12, 13 (with ill.).
- Heinrich Ammann and Christoph Vögele: Adolf Dietrich. Oeuvrekatalog der Ölbilder und Aquarelle, Zurich 1994, p. 202 f., no. 27.05 (with ill.).
ADOLF DIETRICH
(1877 Berlingen 1957)
Circus Knie Menagerie. 1927.
Oil on board.
Signed and dated lower left: Ad. Dietrich 1927.
42 × 64 cm.
