Heinrich Campendonk Lot n° 189

Heinrich Campendonk Arma Christi 1937/1997 Polychrome leaded glass window, in three parts, partly painted with black solder. Overall dimensions 61.5 x 158 cm, set in a wooden frame. Unmarked. Posthumous, 4th execution from 1997 after the original 1937 box, executed by Hein Derix Werkstätten für Glasmalerei, Kevelaer. - In good condition. With a confirmation by Peter Derix, Kevelaer, dated March 2020. Exhibitions 2001 Bedburg/Hau (Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland), Heinrich Campendonk. The Second Half of the Life of a Blue Rider, cat. No. 7, p. 23 with color illustrations, p. 110, p. 306; 2011 Karlsruhe (Badisches Landesmuseum), Glasmalerei der Moderne. Fascination of Color in Backlight, cat. No. 24, p. 157 with ill. Literature a.o. Maria-Katharina Schulz, Glasmalerei der Klassischen Moderne in Deutschland, Phil. Diss Universität Karlsruhe, Frankfurt a.M./Bern/New York 1987, pp. 129-130; Freia Oliv, Fragile Aufbrüche, Campendonks Glasfenster zur Passion und zu Jesaja, in: Heinrich Campendonk, Rausch und Reduktion, Ausst. Cat. Stadtmuseum Penzberg 2007, Cologne 2007, pp. 144-147 with illustrations of the 3rd version; Astrid Schunck, Drei außergewöhnliche Fensterprojekte, in: Kristalline Welten - Die Glasgemälde Heinrich Campendonks, Ausst. Cat. Deutsches Glasmalereimuseum Linnich 2014, Düren 2014, pp. 100-115, with color illustrations of the 1st version and the original carton from 1937. Heinrich Campendonk created the stained glass window for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937, this first version was executed by the studio Willem Bogtmann in Haarlem and is now in the Instituut Collectie Nederland. A total of three posthumous versions were executed in the Hein Derix workshops in Kevelaer in 1959 and 1997, one of which is the example offered here. The other two posthumous works are in the Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss and in the Christkönig Church in Penzberg respectively.