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Alexander Kanoldt (1881 Karlsruhe - 1939 Berlin). Landschaft mit Kirchturm. 1921 Oil on canvas . Signed and dated lower right. Once more signed as well as dated '1921/IX' on the stretcher.29 x 35,5 cm (11,4 x 13,9 in). Provenienz: Acquired by the Sondheimer-family before 1938.Private collection South Germany. Alexander Kanoldt was born in Karlsruhe in 1881 as the son of the late classicistic landscape painter Edmund Friedrich Kanoldt. He began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter at the local Kunstgewerbeschule, but decided to join the Academy in 1901. He took drawing lessons and became acquainted with his colleague Adolf Erbslöh. During this time Kanoldt closely studied Neo-Impressionist techniques, which inspired his technically extremely sophisticated colour lithographs. In 1904 Kanoldt continued his studies Friedrich Fehr's painter's class and became his master pupil in 1906. Kanoldt moved to Munich in 1908, where he founded the 'Neue Künstlervereinigung', a forerunner of the 'Blauer Reiter', together with Alexej von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and others one year later. Kanoldt also took part in their first exhibition at Heinrich Thannhauser's Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. In 1913 Kanoldt, as well as Bechtejeff, Carl Caspar, Jawlensky and Klee, was a member of the 'Münchener Neue Sezession'. Kanoldt's artistic career was interrupted by the outbreak of the war during which he was drafted as an officer. After the war he produced landscapes and still lifes in new objectivity style, which mark a new beginning in his work. Kanoldt's clear ideas of handling that freed the object of all extraneous embellishments, yet, despite its closeness to the subject, achieved a stylised reality, soon made him a leading exponent of New Objectivity. The artist was led to adopt this stance neither by a romantic feeling for nature nor through the social criticism advanced by other paintings. Kanoldt consistently pursued a process of abstraction he had marked out for himself, which links geometric subdivision of surfaces with a characteristic clarity and hardness. The lack of all traces of life and fortuity is what lends his works their enigmatic calm and cool melancholy. In 1925 the painter exhibited works in the 'Neue Sachlichkeit' exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim. The same year he was invited to teach at the Breslau Kunstakademie, a post that he gave up again in 1931. Together with 18 painter colleagues Kanoldt was founder of the 'Badische Secession' in Freiburg in 1927 and in 1932 he joined the Munich artist group 'Die Sieben'. Even though he was appointed professor at the Kunstakademie in Berlin in 1933 his works were labelled 'degenerate' during the Nazi regime and confiscated in 1937. Alexander Kanoldt died of a heart disease on 24 January 1939. [NB]In good condition. Partially with negligible craquelé. Stretcher partly minimally pushing through. The lower left margin with a small colour chipping.