Highlights

Kosmisches Auge (Oeil cosmique)

1921-22
Otto Freundlich

Pastel on cardboard
Monogrammed lower right
81 x 65,3 cm

EXHIBITIONS:
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Otto Freundlich (1878–1943), 1960, no. 8
Recklinghausen, Vienna, Berlin, Ort der Freiheit für die Kunst, 1960, cat. no. 107
Berlin, Kunstamt Wedding, 15th European Art Exhibition: The November Group, part I, the Painters, 1977, cat. no. 18, ill. p. 52
Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle, Ruhr Festival, Dream of Peace, Buried Hopes, 1982
Regensburg, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, 4 Sept. – 30 Oct. 1994; Osnabruck, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, 13 Nov. 1994 – 15 Jan. 1995; Otto Freundlich, Précurseur de l’Abstraction, cat. no. 35, ill. full page col. p. 127
Pontoise, Musée de Pontoise, 23 May – 27 Sept. 2009, Otto Freundlich, cat. no. 46, ill. full page col. p. 17
Basel, Kunstmuseum, 10 June – 10 September 2017, Otto Freundlich, cat. p.167

LITERATURE:
Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Artist, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1978, no. 229
Joël Mettay, Edda Maillet, Otto Freundlich et la France, un amour trahi, Mare Nostrum, 2004, ill. full page col. p. 172