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Rudolf Schlichter

Calw 1890 – 1955 Munich

Sex murder. 1924

Chalk on paper. 41,1 × 29,4 cm (16 ⅛ × 11 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Rudolf Schlichter. Sex murder. 1924.

Estimate:

EUR 5,000

 

- 7,000

USD 5,880

 

- 8,240

Sold for:

6,350 EUR (incl. premium)

Winter Auctions 2025

Modern & 19th Century Art, Friday, 28.11.2025

Information

Chalk on paper. 41,1 × 29,4 cm (16 ⅛ × 11 ⅝ in.). Signed in pencil lower right: R. Schlichter. On the cardboard backing labels of the exhibitions Milwaukee 1994, The Hague 1995, Stockholm 1995/96, Helsinki 1996 and Milwaukeee 1997 (see below). Framed

We would like to thank Dr. Sigrid Lange, Königswinter, for kindly providing additional information.

Wolf Uecker, Hamburg / Marvin and Janet Fishman, Milwaukee (acquired in 1993 at Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg) / Christina and Volker Huber, Offenbach (acquired in 2000 at Sotheby's, London)

Rudolf Schlichter 1890-1955. Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, und Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1984, cat. no. 179, ill. 50, p. 48 / The Janet and Marvin Fishman Collection: New Acquisitions, Recent Gifts and Old Friends. Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum, 1994, ill. / Art et résistance. Les peintres allemands de l'entre-deux. Den Haag, Museum Palais Lange Voorhout; Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall; Helsinki, Helsingin Taidehalli; Brüssel, Palais des Beaux Arts, 1995/96, cat. no. 1140 / Rudolf Schlichter and Friends. German Art between the Wars. Milwaukee, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 1997 / Rudolf Schlichter. Eros und Apokalypse. Koblenz, Mittelrhein-Museum, und Halle, Kunstverein „Talstraße“ e.V., 2015/16, cat. no. 142, ill. p. 109

Peter Paul Althaus: Jack der Aufschlitzer. Berlin, Verlag Elena Gottschalk, 1924 [= Die tollen Bücher, vol. 3], ill. opposite p. 28 / Auktion 300: Moderne Kunst. Hamburg, Hauswedell & Nolte, 10./11.6.1993, cat. no. 855, ill. pl. 111 / Corinne Granof. Obstinate Flesh: The Early Career of Rudolf Schlichter. Dissertation, University of Chicago, Department of Art, 1995, no. 80 / Sale L00106: The Marvin & Janet Fishman Collection. German Art from Expressionism to Resistance. London, Sotheby´s, 18.10.2000, cat. no. 31, ill. p. 54

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