Lot 454: Adam und Eva

Walter Jakob (German, 1893-1964)
Adam und Eva
signed with the initials and dated 'W.J.21.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
38¼ x 27¾ in. (97.2 x 70.5 cm.)
Painted in 1921

Frankfurt-am-Main, Galerie Benno Walldorf, 1961.
Altenburg, Lindenau-Museum, Internationale Sprachen der Kunst: Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen der Klassischen Moderne aus der Sammlung Hoh, August - October 1998, no. 44 (illustrated p. 120); this exhibition later travelled to Osnabrück, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall and Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum.

Exh. cat., Walter Jakob 1893-1964. Eine Retrospektive, Altenburg, 1993, p. 70.

Heinrich Kirchhoff, Wiesbaden.
On loan to the Wiesbaden Museum until 1960.
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin.
Prof. Dr Dr Aloys Greither, Munich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1988.
On loan to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, since 1995.

PROPERTY FROM THE HOH COLLECTION