DEXEL, WALTER
1890 Munich - 1973 Brunswick

Title: "Bahnunterfahrt II".
Date: 1912.
Technique: Oil on cardboard.
Measurement: 28,5 x 32,5cm.
Notation: Signed, dated, titled and inscribed. verso: W DEXEL 12 Bahnunterfahrt II Vorsicht Hinterglasbild zerbrechlich. Here additionally label with work indications.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.

The work temporarely served as cover for a reverse glass painting by Walter Dexel. It was only discovered later during a restauration. In addition, there is a further version "Bahnunterfahrt I" (cf. Wöbkemeier/Vitt cat. rais. no. 2), which to this day is part of the collection of the Von der Heydt-Museums.

Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (directly from the artist)

Exhibitions:
- Landesmuseum Münster, 1979 (label)
- Kunstamt Wedding, Berlin 1982
- Galerie Stolz, Cologne 1990
- Kunsthalle Bremen, 1990 (label)

Literature:
- Wöbkemeier, Ruth/Vitt, Walter: Walter Dexel - Werkverzeichnis, Heidelberg 1995, cat. rais. no. 12
- Exhibiton catalogue Landesmuseum Münster, Walter Dexel - Retrospektive, Münster 1979, cat. rais. no. 2, pp. 11, 16, 113 and 169, ill.
- Vitt, Walter (ed.): Hommage á Dexel, Starnberg 1980, p. 18, ill.
- Exhibiton catalogue Kunstamt Wedding, Berlin 1982, cat. rais. no. 2, n. pag., ill.
- Exhibiton catalogue Galerie Stolz, Cologne 1990, p. 87
- Exhibiton catalogue Kunsthalle Bremen, Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, Bremen 1990, cat. rais. no. 3, p. 174.

Further, later works by Walter Dexel can be found in the catalogue Post War under the lot numbers 262 and 263.

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