Ahrenshoop (dpa/mv) – A 16.5 by 10.5 centimeter drawing by Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) from 1892 was auctioned in Ahrenshoop for 22,000 euros. The miniature, executed in gouache and pencil, shows the sailing ship “Wilhelmine” at its berth in the Baaber Beek on Rügen, as auctioneer Robert Dämmig announced in Ahrenshoop on Saturday.
According to the catalogue, the ship belonged to skipper Albert Niejahr, who toured between Baabe and Stralsund from 1891 as a “serial operator”. Feininger repeatedly spent his summers on the Baltic Sea coast, drawing landscapes and towns, people and ships there. The artist spent many years of his life in New York.
However, a representative of traditional painting from Mecklenburg achieved the top value in the Ahrenshoop winter auction on Friday: Carl Malchin (1838-1923). For the oil painting “On the Ice” from 1916, a bidder was awarded 28,000 euros. The picture, measuring 56 centimeters by 1.14 meters, was the most expensive work of art at the auction, so Dämmig.
130 works by artists with connections to the Baltic Sea coast were offered in the auction, including the founder of the Ahrenshoop artist colony, Paul Müller-Kaempff (1861–1941). Seven small format works by Lyonel Feininger were on offer. All found buyers at the auction. A total of 118 works were auctioned on Friday for a total of almost 400,000 euros.
