Karl & Faber in Munich auctions on 16. June, works of the old masters and the 19th century. Century. A prominent role of Adolph Menzel plays, also because of his Hand, the highly rated Los dates back to: “Outdoor (girl on a balcony)” shows five young women, including possibly the artist’s sister Emilie, keep smiling only briefly in the conversation held. Maybe you were after a eat outside, to take their mocha – it’s the Cup on the sill. In the clayey colour of the 1852 on cardboard watercolor archived snapshot Menzel continued in the usual virtuosity deck, white lights, lace cuffs, and other Details the flash light will light up. From a Swiss private collection that was coming, the estimate of 150,000 to 200,000 euros.
Also Menzel drawings are waiting for interested parties – and his portrait of the Berlin painter Paul Meyerheim. Menzel portrayed in 1868, the then 26-year-old artist with a dark profile; 1906 Curls in the first three quarters, a year after Menzel’s death, as published in Meyer’s home, his memories of the great colleagues. After workup, a complex provenance history, the auction house can offer the painting in the “explicit agreement” with the heirs of the former Jewish owner, Abraham adelsberger and his son-in-law Alfred Isay,: In the year 2016 in Grisebach unsold, to the image now to the lower estimate of 40 000 to 50 000 Euro. A nice coincidence is a watercolor for the call to come, the unknown artist was dedicated in 1870 by Eduard Gärtner justified Tradition in the city of Berlin watercolor of Sigismund street in the Tiergarten district. To the right of the image is the house number 3, that there lived in Menzel and was in the fourth floor of his Studio (estimate € 1000); today, the buildings of the forum for the culture of the area.
In the original Rococo frame and in intimate togetherness Theseus and Ariadne” by Johann Heinrich tischbein d. to enter Similar”. the auction stage (20 000/25 000), as a Hauptlos in the case of the Old Masters. In addition, there are Jacob Philipp Hackerts oil Painting “In the English garden of Caserta”; the large format with weidendem cattle in the foreground and views of the Vesuvius, he painted in the year 1800 (70.000/80.000). The extra catalogue for printmaking under 35 scroll of Dürer, the cold needle-rarity “Ecce Homo (man of sorrows with hands bound)” of 1512 in an early state (15.000/20.000), or the wood cut “Samson kills the lion”, also early rare print condition (40.000/50.000). The same predicate with a copy of the Rembrandt etching ennobles “the Great descent from the cross” (40.000/50.000). The route to the 19. Century on the graphics of Goya, Honoré Daumier, Camille Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec or Max Klinger.
