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Felixmüller, Conrad (Dresden 1897 – 1977 Berlin)Drawing „Doppelportrait mit Londa“, pencil on buff wove paper (papier vélin), portrait of the artist’s wife next to a woman from Bielefeld (Frau Becker?), Londa Felixmüller wears a silver pendant of the Bielefeld goldsmith Rudolf Feldmann, with whom the artist was also well acquainted, signed and dated lower left „C. Felixmüller Bielefeld 1924“, sheet 50,5 x 32 cm, very good original condition, unframed 4304 Possibly the depicted Bielefeld woman is the wife of Dr. Heinrich Becker, from the same year (1924) existed in the Becker collection portraits of the daughter Lydia and the son Arnold by Conrad Felixmüller (see catalog Auktionshaus OWL 22.10.2022, lot 55171 Prov.: Gift of the artist to Dr. Heinrich Becker, collection Dr. Heinrich Becker Bielefeld, possession of the daughter Lydia Villanua-Becker Madrid (*1912 Bielefeld), private collection East Westphalia, Dr. Heinrich Becker (Braunschweig 1881 – 1964 Bielefeld) was director of the Städtisches Kunsthaus Bielefeld (precursor of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld from 1927 to 1933 and from 1946 to 1954, during this time he organized more than 80 exhibitions with works by Käthe Kollwitz, August Macke, Edvard Munch or Emil Nolde, among others.

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