The Red Cat Artist: Heinrich Campendonk (German, 1889–1957)

1926

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

29 5/8 × 33 7/16 in. (75.3 × 85 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.380

Culture

German

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Heinrich Campendonk, 1926–27; Katherine Dreier, 1927–41; Collection Société Anonyme; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Conn.
Bibliography
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 191, ill
  • Ein Maler des Baleuen Reiter, exh. cat. (Krefeld, Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, 1989),
  • Andrea Firmenrich, Heinrich Campendonk, 1889–1957: Leben und expressionistische Werk (Recklinghausen, Germany: Aurel Bongers, 1989),
  • Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 132, no. 125, ill
  • Heinrich Campendonk, 1889–1957, exh. cat. (Kaiserslautern, Germany: Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 1982),
  • Ruth L. Bohan, The Société Anonyme's Brooklyn Exhibition: Katherine Dreier and Modernism in America (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Research Press, 1982), 136, fig. 18
  • Aurel Bongers, ed., Die Rheinischen Expressionisten, Auguste Macke und seine Malerfreunde, exh. cat. (Bonn, Germany: Städtische Kunstmuseum, 1979),
  • Heinrich Campendonk, Edith van Leckwyck, exh. cat. (Munich: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, 1976),
  • Heinrich Campendonk: Gemalde, Aquarelle, Hinterglasblider, Grafik, exh. cat. (Düsseldorf: Stadtische Kunsthalle, 1972),
  • Mathias T. Engels, Campendonk als Glasmaler (Krefeld, Germany: Scherpe, 1966),
  • Paul Wember, Heinrich Campendonk: Krefeld 1889–1957 Amsterdam (Krefeld, Germany: Scherpe, 1960),
  • Mathias T. Engels, Campendonk: Werkverseichnis der Holzschnitte (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1959),
  • Mathias T. Engels, Heinrich Campendonk (Cologne, Germany: E. A. Seemann, 1957),
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 81
  • Katherine S. Dreier, James Johnson Sweeney, and Naum Gabo, Three Lectures on Modern Art (New York: Philosophical Library, 1949), 26
  • George Heard Hamilton, "The Exhibition of the Collection of the Societe Anonyme: The Museum of Modern Art, 1920," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 10, no. 3 (December 1941), 4, ill
  • W. Harley Rudkin, "Art in the News," Springfield Daily News (November 16, 1939), 7
  • "Springfield: A Review of the Societe Anonyme," Artnews 38, no. 9 (December 2, 1939),
  • W. G. Rogers, "Art Column," Springfield Union (November 16, 1939), 10
  • Richard S. Brooks, "Some New Forms of Beauty 1909–36 Shown at Museum," Daily Republican (November 15, 1939), 7
  • "Paintings of Nudes Consigned to Cellar," Toronto Daily Star (April 4, 1927),
  • Catherine J. Rich, "Four Children and the Moderns," Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 14, no. 1 (January 1927), 23–24
  • Elizabeth L. Cary, "Experimental Art at Brooklyn Museum: Out of a Rut, Societe Anonyme Exhibits Work of Well-Known Moderns," New York Times (November 21, 1926), 11, sec. 8
  • Walter Schüereyer, Heinrich Campendonk (Frankfurt: Verlag Zinglers Kabinett, 1920),
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Subject

cats flowers

Signed

Signed l.r. "HC 26"

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