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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 29, 2019 | Lempertz | Cologne | Modern Art I | 217 | $****** - ****** | Kinder am Weiher (Garten in Godramstein) | |||
Dec 3, 2005 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | Modern Art | 986 | $****** - ****** | Children by pond |
paintings
63 x 87.5 cm (24.8 x 34.45 in)
Oil on canvas
Verso on canvas upper left with the estate stamp (not recorded by Lugt) and the estate no. "149" inserted by hand in ink, the erroneous dating "1911" and the confirming signature of Wolfgang Slevogt ("W. Slevogt"), the artist's son
Caroline von Slevogt, maiden name Lucas (artist's mother)
Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart
Galerie Westenhoff, Hamburg
Private collection, South Germany
Kunsthaus Lempertz, modern art auction 882, Cologne 3 December 2005, lot 986
Private collection, Berlin
Cologne/Houston 2010 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud/ The Museum of Fine Arts), Liebermann - Corinth - Slevogt. Die Landschaften, cat. no. 67 with colour illus.
Hans-Jürgen Imiela, Max Slevogt. Eine Monographie, Karlsruhe 1968, cf. "Die Landschaften", for Godramstein p. 144 ff. resp. also Anmerkungen 13, 14, p. 393
While at first sight the painting “Kinder am Weiher” is an Impressionist masterpiece depicting a forest and park landscape on a sunny afternoon in the early fall, aside from it being a landscape it is also a highly personal, intimate family picture, which explains why it was kept by the artist's mother and was evidently never signed. The painting was produced in Godramstein in the Rhineland Palatinate where alongside the nearby country estate Neukastell to the south-west, where the artist would reside in his later years, the family owned a villa with an attractive view of the Haardt und Vogesen mountain ranges. Slevogt's father-in-law had a tobacco and cigar factory in Godramstein.
Surrounded by vineyards the villa was set in a small park with a pond. As Hans-Jürgen Imiela mentions in his expert report, Slevogt depicts his children Nina and Wolfgang in the painting accompanied by their nanny in a white dress. The painting documented by the artist himself in his handwritten catalog raisonné and dated 1909, marks the start of his brief but fruitful phase in Godramstein, which covered the years from 1909 to 1913.
“In the oeuvre of the artist who is now 40-45 years old Godramstein undoubtedly marks a climax. Masterful in capturing the special essence of landscapes he can express to the full potential his Impressionist concept of landscape developed in these years. One can talk of a prosperous and contented period prior to World War I.” (Berthold Roland. Max Slevogt. Pfälzische Landschaften, Munich, 1991, p. 19).
Max Slevogt
Landshut 1868 - 1932 Neukastel
Kinder am Weiher (Garten in Godramstein)
1909
Oil on canvas. 63 x 87.5 cm. Framed. Verso on canvas upper left with the estate stamp (not recorded by Lugt) and the estate no. "149" inserted by hand in ink, the erroneous dating "1911" and the confirming signature of Wolfgang Slevogt ("W. Slevogt"), the artist's son. - In fine condition.
