Collection Sophie and Emanuel Fohn

Alexej Jawlensky: Elongated head in brownish red

The Sophie and Emanuel Fohn Collection is an art collection owned by the collector and artist couple Sophie and Emanuel Fohn .

August Macke: Girls under Trees, 1914

The collection sees itself - deliberately formulated in this way by the donors - as a warning against any totalitarian (art) political stance and for the freedom of art.

Part of the collection originally came from German museum holdings, the "modern" departments of which were largely confiscated by the National Socialists in the Degenerate Art campaign and some of them were sold for foreign currency . Sophie and Emanuel Fohn made the spontaneous decision to stand up for the endangered works of art and bought up numerous works. They continued to exchange parts of their former collection of art from the 18th and 19th centuries with the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda for the works of so-called degenerate artists.

In 1964 Sofie and Emanuel Fohn donated part of their 700 works collection, namely 15 paintings, a reverse glass painting, 113 gouaches, watercolors and drawings, 95 prints and three textile works to the Bavarian State Painting Collections .

Works from the collection in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (selection)

Jankel Adler , Mr. Cléron, the cat breeder, 1925 Ernst Barlach , the Alb, 1911 Paula Modersohn-Becker , Die Alte Bredow, around 1902 Max Beckmann , Lake by Moonlight, 1934 Heinrich Campendonk , Two women at the table, 1922 Lovis Corinth , Walchensee with mountain range and bank slope, 1925 Otto Dix , Sappenkopf, 1920 Lyonel Feininger , Gelmeroda VII, 1918 Xaver Fuhr , Haven with a yellow house, before 1930 George Grosz , Jakobstrasse, 1920 Erich Heckel , Portrait of Siddi Heckel , 1914 Karl Hofer , Great Carnival, 1928 Adolf Hölzel , Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, around 1915 Alexej von Jawlensky , Elongated Head in Brown Red, 1913 Wassily Kandinsky , Graue Form, 1922 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Absalmon's Death, 1918/19 Paul Klee , Adventure Ship, 1927 Oskar Kokoschka , Seated Girl, 1918

Käthe Kollwitz , The Survivors, 1923 Alfred Kubin , The Doppelganger, 1913 August Macke , Girl under Trees, 1914 Franz Marc , The Mandrill, 1913 Gerhard Marcks , drummer, 1921 Ludwig Meidner , self-portrait, 1915 Paula Modersohn-Becker , Children's Nude with Goldfish Bowl, 1906/07 Otto Mueller , girls bathing under trees, 1920s Emil Nolde , ballet, 1922 Hermann Max Pechstein , White House, around 1910 Christian Rohlfs , Garben, around 1911 Egon Schiele , Seated Girl, 1911 Oskar Schlemmer , Composition with Figures, 1923 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Tree and Moon, around 1935 Else Lasker-Schüler , The Fakir, before 1919 Johanna Schütz-Wolff , wall hanging, 1922 Rabindranath Tagore , head

literature

• Carla Schulz-Hoffmann (Ed.): The Sophie and Emanuel Fohn Collection. A documentation . Hirmer, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7774-5260-2 (artists and works; 11).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The collection of Sofie and Emanuel Fohn in the Pinakothek der Moderne - there is a fine line between profit and rescue