Bonaventura Genelli Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Bonaventura Genelli Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 18, 2024
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - Weimar 1868) – 3 Bll.: Aktstudien (2) – Weibliche Gewandstudie
Est: €800 - €1,000
Bleistift, weiß gehöht (1) auf Velin mit Wz. „J. WHATMAN 1856" (1). 25,4 x 19 cm, 12,5 x 19,6 cm bzw. 15,4 x13,2 cm. Das Inkarnat bzw. die plastisch erscheinenden Drapierfalten mittels zarter Wischspuren fein modelliert. Bei der Gewandstudie handelt es sich wohl um einen Vorentwurf zu einer schwebenden Muse, die auf dem 1862 entstandenen Gemälde „Herkules und Omphale“ (Schack-Galerie, München, Inv.-Nr. 11550) dargestellt ist. – Von unterschiedlicher Erhaltung, insgesamt jedoch gut. Die Echtheit wurde mündlich von Frau Dr. Eva Christine Nielsen bestätigt. Taxation: differenzbesteuert (VAT: Margin Scheme)
Karl & Faber
Nov. 18, 2024
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - Weimar 1868) – 6 Bll.: Verschiedene Darstellungen
Est: €800 - €1,000
Feder in Braun und Bleistift auf chamoisfarbenem Zeichenpapier. Von 9,5 x 29,2 cm bis zu 20,8 x 33,8 cm (Blattgröße). Zwei Bll. rechts unten „Rom“ bezeichnet, links unten in Rot beziffert. Vorhanden: Entwurf für eine Schlachtenzene – Skizzenblatt zu: Philosophen sprechen zum Volk. – 2 Bll.: Herakles ringt mit Thanatos um Alkestis. – 2 Bll.: Mythologische Szenen. Bereits in der römischen Zeit des Künstlers waren verschiedene Variationen des Sujets entstanden, die Philosophen wie z. B. Aesop, Homer oder Sappho zu einer Gruppe sprechend zeigten. Als kompositiorische Vorbilder dienten Genelli die bekannten Gemälde "Homer singt den Griechen" (1796) von Asmus Jakob Carstens und "Apoll unter den Hirten" (1806) von Gottlieb Schick. Ein Bl. verso mit Karikaturen von verschiedenen Männerköpfen sowie drei Figuren auf einem Wagen. Ein Bl. mit einer Bleistiftskizze einer knienden Figur bzw. einer Blume mit hs. Farbangaben. – Ein Bl. an den Ecken zu einem Achteck beschnitten, ansonsten von unterschiedlicher Erhaltung. Taxation: differenzbesteuert (VAT: Margin Scheme)
Karl & Faber
Nov. 09, 2024
Friedrich Preller der Ältere, "Bonaventura Genelli", signierte Bleistiftzeichnung von 1833
Est: €400 - €500
Friedrich Preller der Ältere, "Bonaventura Genelli", signierte Bleistiftzeichnung von 1833 Johann Christian Ernst Friedrich Preller der Ältere, 1804 Eisenach - 1878 Weimar, Maler, Radierer und ab 1844 Professor an der Fürstlichen freien Zeichenschule in Weimar. Hier: Porträt von Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar) mit dem Rücken zum Betrachter, der Kopf ist hierbei im Profil, Bleistiftzeichnung auf bräunlichem dickem Papier, 11,2 x 13,4 cm, mit Bleistift monogrammiert, bezeichnet Leipzig 7. Aug 1833 und betitelt, im oberen Viertel waagrechte leichte Knickfalte, unter P.p, das Werk stammt aus einem Mal- und Skizzenbuch des Künstlers, Provenienz: Galerienachlass Friedrich Preller the Elder, "Bonaventura Genelli", signed pencil drawing from 1833 Johann Christian Ernst Friedrich Preller the Elder, 1804 Eisenach - 1878 Weimar, painter, etcher and from 1844 professor at the Fürstliche freie Zeichenschule in Weimar. Here: Portrait of Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar) with his back to the viewer, the head is in profile, pencil drawing on brownish thick paper, 11.2 x 13.4 cm, monogrammed in pencil, inscribed Leipzig 7 Aug 1833 and titled, horizontal slight crease in the upper quarter, under P.p, the work comes from a painting and sketchbook of the artist, Provenance: gallery estate
K&K – Auktionen in Heidelberg
Oct. 19, 2024
BONAVENTURA GENELLI : „Palamedes in der Unterwelt“.
Est: €400 - €500
BONAVENTURA GENELLI Berlin 1798 - 1868 Weimar „Palamedes in der Unterwelt“. Der Held beim Würfelspiel mit Thersites. Tuschfederzeichnung. Vgl. Ebert, S. 118, Abb. 106. - Signiert, betitelt und bezeichnet. Auf Vélin. 19 x 27,9 cm. Gering angestaubt und verso mit Montierungsresten. Sammlung R. P. Goldschmidt, Berlin (Lugt 1926). [bg]
Winterberg-Kunst
Oct. 19, 2024
BONAVENTURA GENELLI : Moses und die Töchter Reguels am Brunnen (Moses vertreibt die Hirten).
Est: €360 - €450
BONAVENTURA GENELLI Berlin 1798 - 1868 Weimar Moses und die Töchter Reguels am Brunnen (Moses vertreibt die Hirten). Bleistiftzeichnung mit Einfassungslinie 1856. Vgl. Ebert, Hans, Bonaventura Genelli. Leben und Werk. Weimar 1971, Abb. 110 (Sepiazeichnung). - Unterhalb der Darstellung signiert und datiert „B. Genelli fecit 1856“. Auf transparentem chamoisfarbenen Vélin, auf kräftiges Vélin aufgezogen. 35,8 x 49,8 cm (Blatt: ca. 36,7 x 50,3 cm). Leicht stock- und gering braunfleckig sowie mit vereinzelten winzigen Läsuren. Bei der vorliegenden klassizistischen Bleistiftzeichnung, in der die Linie das formgebende Medium ist, handelt es sich vermutlich um eine Zeichnung für die Fürstin Caroline von Sayn-Wittgenstein, der der Künstler am 22.4.1856 schrieb, dass er nun die Umrisse zu drei Bildern gleich großen Formats [sog. Brunnenbilder] vollendet habe (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Handschriftenabteilung; Eva Nielsen. Bonaventura Genelli. Werk und Kunstauffassung, München 2005, SS. 124-141). Weitere Zeichnungen desselben Themas befinden sich u.a. im Kestner-Museum Hannover (Sepiazeichnung) und in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München (Bleistiftzeichnung). [bg]
Winterberg-Kunst
Oct. 09, 2024
Genelli, Bonaventura: Umrisse zum Homer
Est: €60 - €100
Genelli, Bonaventura. Umrisse zum Homer, mit Erläuterungen von Ernst Förster. 15 S. Mit radiertem Frontispiz und 48 Umrissradierungen von B. Genelli. 26 x 33,5 cm. Illustriertes OHalbleinen (bestoßen, gering berieben). Stuttgart, Cotta, 1883. -- Vgl. Rümann 536. Vgl. Thieme-Becker. 13, 382 – Enthält jeweils 24 Radierungen zur "Ilias" und "Odyssee". Genellis Illustrationen waren ursprünglich in kleinerer Zahl für die Homer-Übersetzung von J. H. Voß entstanden. "Naturgemäß fand Genelli auch an Homer seine Freude. Befreit von aller klassizistischen Theorie, tief erfüllt vom Erlebnis des Gedichtes, voll Hingabe an Homers unsterbliche Worte, fügte Genelli Szene an Szene." (Rümann, S. 223). – Vereinzelt gering stockfleckig.
Bassenge Auctions
Sep. 28, 2024
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Historicist villa by the lake, 1854, Pencil
Est: €120 - €200
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Historism villa on the lake with jetty, 1854, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Inscription: Signed and dated in pencil lower right. Date: 1854 Keywords: 19th century, Romanticism, Architecture, Germany, Size: Paper: 15,4 cm x 23,7 cm (6,1 x 9,3 in), Depiction: 9,7 cm x 19,0 cm (3,8 x 7,5 in)
Fichter Kunsthandel
Jul. 27, 2024
B. GENELLI (1798-1868) attributed, Biblical scene with archangels, Etching
Est: €150 - €200
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar) attributed: Christian biblical scene with the seven judging archangels, 19th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Date: 19th century Description: The Madonna-like figure of the group of figures on the left is given a crown by the archangel, while the group of people on the right is punished with lightning. Keywords: 19th century, Classicism, Biblical, Germany, Size: Paper: 30,7 cm x 41,2 cm (12,1 x 16,2 in), Plate: 22,0 cm x 31,5 cm (8,7 x 12,4 in), Depiction: 17,0 cm x 28,5 cm (6,7 x 11,2 in)
Fichter Kunsthandel
May. 31, 2024
Genelli, Bonaventura: Sitzender männlicher Akt, ein Trinkgefäß haltend
Est: €600 - €760
Sitzender männlicher Akt, ein Trinkgefäß haltend. Bleistift auf dünnem Velin, alt auf einen stärkeren Karton kaschiert. 32,1 x 24,8 cm. Um 1868. Vorstudie für die zentrale Figur des Bacchus auf Genellis monumentalem Gemälde "Bacchus unter den Musen" von 1868 in der Sammlung Schack der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, München. - Provenienz: Sammlung Matthias Konrad Rech, Bonn (Lugt 2754a). - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
Bassenge Auctions
May. 31, 2024
Genelli, Bonaventura: Pandora umgeben von Zeus, Eris, dem Höllenhund Zerberos und weiteren mythologischen Figuren
Est: €600 - €800
Pandora umgeben von Zeus, Eris, dem Höllenhund Zerberos und weiteren mythologischen Figuren. Feder in Braun, über Bleistift auf C & I Honig-Bütten. 27,4 x 42,5 cm. Unten rechts in Bleistift bez. (signiert?) "B. Genelli". - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
Bassenge Auctions
Mar. 08, 2024
BONAVENTURA GENELLI
Est: €500 - €1,000
BONAVENTURA GENELLI 1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar MYTHOLOGICAL SCENE, AROUND 1840 Ink on paper. 30.5 x 21 cm (P. 44.5 x 35). Signed 'B. Genelli fec' lower right. In passepartout. Provenance: Private collection. BONAVENTURA GENELLI 1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar MYTHOLOGISCHE SZENE, UM 1840 Tusche auf Papier. 30,5 x 21 cm (P. 44,5 x 35). Signiert unten rechts 'B. Genelli fec'. Im Passepartout. Provenienz: Privatsammlung.
Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf
Feb. 14, 2024
Genelli, Bonaventura.
Est: €240 - €360
Das Leben einer Hexe. In Zeichnungen von Bonaventura Genelli, gestochen von Merz und Gonzenbach. Mit erläuternden Bemerkungen von Dr. H. Ulrici. 2 Bl. (Text) und 10 Bl. Radierungen. Quer-gr. folio. OU (beschädigt, Vorderseite lose). Düsseldorf, Buddeus und R. Weigel, (1847). Rümann 538. Erste Ausgabe des berühmten Zyklus. "Seiner Lust, sich in phantastischem Fabulieren zu ergehen, vermochte er in seinem linearen Stil stärksten Ausdruck zu verleihen." (Rümann S. 223 mit Abb.). - Etwas stockfleckig.
Kiefer Buch- und Kunstauktionen
Feb. 10, 2024
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Historicist villa by the lake, 1854, Pencil
Est: €120 - €200
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Historism villa on the lake with jetty, 1854, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Inscription: Signed and dated in pencil lower right. Date: 1854 Keywords: 19th century, Romanticism, Architecture, Germany,
Fichter Kunsthandel
Nov. 15, 2023
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - Weimar 1868) – 3 Bll.: Aktstudien (2) – Weibliche Gewandstudie
Est: €1,000 - €1,100
Bleistift, weiß gehöht (1) auf Velin, mit Wz. „J. WHATMAN 1856" (1). 25,4 x 19 cm, 12,5 x 19,6 cm bzw. 15,4 x13,2 cm.Das Inkarnat bzw. die plastisch erscheinenden Drapierfalten mittels zarter Wischspuren fein modelliert. Bei der Gewandstudie handelt es sich wohl um einen Vorentwurf zu einer schwebenden Muse, die auf dem 1862 entstandenen Gemälde "Herkules und Omphale" (Schack-Galerie, München, Inv.-Nr. 11550) dargestellt ist. - Von unterschiedlicher Erhaltung, insgesamt jedoch gut. Die Echtheit wurde mündlich von Frau Dr. Eva Christine Nielsen bestätigt. Taxation: differenzbesteuert (VAT: Margin Scheme)
Karl & Faber - Timed
Nov. 15, 2023
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - Weimar 1868) – 6 Bll.: Verschiedene Darstellungen
Est: €1,000 - €1,100
Feder in Braun und Bleistift auf chamoisfarbenem Zeichenpapier. Von 9,5 x 29,2 cm bis zu 20,8 x 33,8 cm (Blattgröße). Zwei Bll. rechts unten „Rom“ bezeichnet, links unten in Rot beziffert.Vorhanden: Entwurf für eine Schlachtenzene – Skizzenblatt zu: Philosophen sprechen zum Volk. – 2 Bll.: Herakles ringt mit Thanatos um Alkestis. – 2 Bll.: Mythologische Szenen. Bereits in der römischen Zeit des Künstlers waren verschiedene Variationen des Sujets entstanden, die Philosophen wie z. B. Aesop, Homer oder Sappho zu einer Gruppe sprechend zeigten. Als kompositiorische Vorbilder dienten Genelli die bekannten Gemälde "Homer singt den Griechen" (1796) von Asmus Jakob Carstens und "Apoll unter den Hirten" (1806) von Gottlieb Schick. Ein Bl. verso mit Karikaturen von verschiedenen Männerköpfen sowie drei Figuren auf einem Wagen. Ein Bl. mit einer Bleistiftskizze einer knienden Figur bzw. einer Blume mit hs. Farbangaben. – Ein Bll. an den Ecken zu einem Achteck beschnitten, ansonsten von unterschiedlicher Erhaltung. Taxation: differenzbesteuert (VAT: Margin Scheme)
Karl & Faber - Timed
Oct. 14, 2023
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Historism Villa on the Lake, 1854, Pencil
Est: €120 - €200
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Historism villa on the lake with jetty, 1854, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Inscription: Signed and dated in pencil lower right. Date: 1854 Keywords: 19th century, Romanticism, Architecture, Germany,
Fichter Kunsthandel
Oct. 12, 2023
Genelli, Bonaventura.
Est: €360 - €540
Das Leben einer Hexe. In Zeichnungen von Bonaventura Genelli, gestochen von Merz und Gonzenbach. Mit erläuternden Bemerkungen von Dr. H. Ulrici. 2 Bl. (Text) und 10 Bl. Radierungen. Quer-gr. folio. OU (beschädigt, Vorderseite lose). Düsseldorf, Buddeus und R. Weigel, (1847). Rümann 538. Erste Ausgabe des berühmten Zyklus. "Seiner Lust, sich in phantastischem Fabulieren zu ergehen, vermochte er in seinem linearen Stil stärksten Ausdruck zu verleihen." (Rümann S. 223 mit Abb.). - Etwas stockfleckig.
Kiefer Buch- und Kunstauktionen
Sep. 02, 2023
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Mars and Cupid, Ares and Eros, Lithography
Est: €300 - €400
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Mars and Cupid, Ares and Eros, The god of war Ares has raised his little son Eros grasps the Corinthian helmet of his father At his feet lies a griffin, 19th century, Lithography Technique: Lithography on PaperPaper Date: 19th century Keywords: Antiquity, Father and Son, 19th century, Biedermeier, Mythology, Germany,
Fichter Kunsthandel
Aug. 26, 2023
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Nude Study of a Sitting Man, Pencil
Est: €1,650 - €2,200
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Nude study of a seated male figure with outstretched left arm and upraised right foot, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on , mounted on Paper Date: 19th century Description: "Even the first of the drawings aroused my astonishment, and this grew with each new sheet I looked at. Each of them had the unmistakable imprint of a powerful spirit, and I could not doubt that the artist, who stood before me so modestly and unassumingly in poor surroundings, was one of those great geniuses who rarely appear in the course of the centuries and whom one may only approach with reverence. This is what Adolph Friedrich Graf von Schack wrote about his first encounter with Bonaventura Genelli in Munich.â At the time, Schack was largely alone in his enthusiastic judgement of the artist, for Genelli had hardly attracted any attention, apart from the painting of the Roman House of the publisher Hermann HÃ¤rtel in Leipzig, which ended in disaster. Genelli had come to Munich in 1836 in the hope of finding clients here - but this prospect only came true after he met Count von Schack in the summer of 1857. He ordered no fewer than six large-format paintings from him, which are now in the Schack Gallery, and relieved the painter, who was already very old at the time, of his material hardship. Hundreds of nude studies by Genelli have survived - the largest stock is in his estate in the copperplate engraving cabinet of the Academy of Fine Arts in Viennaâ - which he executed very carefully in an effort to achieve sculptural modelling and at the same time a sensuous, vivid rendering of the naked body. As he understood it, these were not sketches, but completed, finished studies that he was able to transfer unchanged to other contexts. Erwin Speckter, the Hamburg painter who associated with Genelli in Rome in the 1820s, saw many of these studies that had impressed him: â€œHis ideas are always new and striking, beautifully given and equally grouped. [A majestic grandeur, a full-bodied life and a great impetus, combined with grace and a genuine antique sense of beauty, are everywhere expressed. "â Genelli's nude studies carry in their idealism a newly awakened, antique Greekism that he was born with early on: From the very beginning, Genelli saw himself as a draughtsman following in the footsteps of the classicist Asmus Jakob Carstens. Is it a coincidence that Genelli was born in Berlin in 1798, the same year that Carstens died in Rome? Genelli's father Janus and his uncle Hans Christian Genelli had been close friends with Carstens, and even in his old age Bonaventura remembered some of Carstens's drawings that were kept in his parents' house. Familiar with ancient mythology from an early age, his stay in Rome, where Genelli lived for ten years from 1822, was of decisive importance for the development of his artistic personality. Here he found Homer and Dante, to whom he dedicated numerous illustrations that do not deny their training in Carstens, Michelangelo and antiquity. Michelangelo's experience of the Sistine had a lasting influence on him - similarly sublime and enormous bodies populate his pictorial worlds, which are not without pathos. It is these very serious, at times eclectic-looking and out-of-time compositions that led Speckter to find details in his drawings "highly mannered and frivolous" and to attest him "a virtuoso genius [â¦] in so-called stealing", "in that one finds many quite faithfully copied figures and groups from other things in his. "â80 Indeed, his executed compositions are reminiscent of Michelangelo and Raphael, whose powerful depictions of man were the inspiration. The main subject of his drawings is the naked human being, but Genelliâ€™s studies go far beyond the mere depiction of the nude: Genelliâ€™s art is carried by the line, the sheets offered are determined by a delicate, gentle line management full of poetry, which strives for the truth that the Nazarenes were already seeking. His nudes embody a spiritual-moral attitude that tells of antique purity and sublimity. Alongside these were studies in garments of delicate delicacy and at the same time haunting presence, in which he observed certain motifs of movement or garments of individual figures and often repeated the same motif several times, as in one of the present sheets: it is a study for one of the seven sins of death on the title page of his series Aus dem Leben eines WÃ¼stlings, published as lithographs only in 1866. There, above a Latin inscription panel, one sees, according to Genelli's description, "a youth sitting on a light chariot drawn by demons, with the vulgar Cupid on his knees, singing tempting songs to him. This Cupid is followed, whirling around the chariot, by the seven deadly sins. "â Genelli's focus on classicism in the mould of his model Carstens, but also the influence of Joseph Anton Koch, with whom he was still personally acquainted, may make his art around 1850 seem âout of timeâ, but only if one looks at the development of art from the perspective of realism and naturalism. For idealists like Hans von MarÃ©es or Adolf von Hildebrand, who entered the field of art a little later, Genelli's concentration on the naked body, which embodied moral purity and truth in equal measure, meant the anticipation of their ideal Greekism. (Text: Peter Prange) Keywords: Figure, Nude, Study, Drawing, 19th century, Romanticism, People, Germany,
Fichter Kunsthandel
Aug. 26, 2023
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Study of a Floating Figure, Pencil
Est: €1,350 - €1,800
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Study of a Floating Figure, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on , mounted on Paper Date: 19th century Description: "Even the first of the drawings aroused my astonishment, and this grew with each new sheet I looked at. Each of them had the unmistakable imprint of a powerful spirit, and I could not doubt that the artist, who stood before me so modestly and unassumingly in poor surroundings, was one of those great geniuses who rarely appear in the course of the centuries and whom one may only approach with reverence. This is what Adolph Friedrich Graf von Schack wrote about his first encounter with Bonaventura Genelli in Munich.â At the time, Schack was largely alone in his enthusiastic judgement of the artist, for Genelli had hardly attracted any attention, apart from the painting of the Roman House of the publisher Hermann HÃ¤rtel in Leipzig, which ended in disaster. Genelli had come to Munich in 1836 in the hope of finding clients here - but this prospect only came true after he met Count von Schack in the summer of 1857. He ordered no fewer than six large-format paintings from him, which are now in the Schack Gallery, and relieved the painter, who was already very old at the time, of his material hardship. Hundreds of nude studies by Genelli have survived - the largest stock is in his estate in the copperplate engraving cabinet of the Academy of Fine Arts in Viennaâ - which he executed very carefully in an effort to achieve sculptural modelling and at the same time a sensuous, vivid rendering of the naked body. As he understood it, these were not sketches, but completed, finished studies that he was able to transfer unchanged to other contexts. Erwin Speckter, the Hamburg painter who associated with Genelli in Rome in the 1820s, saw many of these studies that had impressed him: â€œHis ideas are always new and striking, beautifully given and equally grouped. [A majestic grandeur, a full-bodied life and a great impetus, combined with grace and a genuine antique sense of beauty, are everywhere expressed. "â Genelli's nude studies carry in their idealism a newly awakened, antique Greekism that he was born with early on: From the very beginning, Genelli saw himself as a draughtsman following in the footsteps of the classicist Asmus Jakob Carstens. Is it a coincidence that Genelli was born in Berlin in 1798, the same year that Carstens died in Rome? Genelli's father Janus and his uncle Hans Christian Genelli had been close friends with Carstens, and even in his old age Bonaventura remembered some of Carstens's drawings that were kept in his parents' house. Familiar with ancient mythology from an early age, his stay in Rome, where Genelli lived for ten years from 1822, was of decisive importance for the development of his artistic personality. Here he found Homer and Dante, to whom he dedicated numerous illustrations that do not deny their training in Carstens, Michelangelo and antiquity. Michelangelo's experience of the Sistine had a lasting influence on him - similarly sublime and enormous bodies populate his pictorial worlds, which are not without pathos. It is these very serious, at times eclectic-looking and out-of-time compositions that led Speckter to find details in his drawings "highly mannered and frivolous" and to attest him "a virtuoso genius [â¦] in so-called stealing", "in that one finds many quite faithfully copied figures and groups from other things in his. "â80 Indeed, his executed compositions are reminiscent of Michelangelo and Raphael, whose powerful depictions of man were the inspiration. The main subject of his drawings is the naked human being, but Genelliâ€™s studies go far beyond the mere depiction of the nude: Genelliâ€™s art is carried by the line, the offered sheets are determined by a delicate, gentle line management full of poetry, which strives for the truth already sought by the Nazarenes. His nudes embody a spiritual-moral attitude that tells of antique purity and sublimity. Alongside these were studies in garments of delicate delicacy and at the same time haunting presence, in which he observed certain motifs of movement or garments of individual figures and often repeated the same motif several times, as in one of the present sheets: it is a study for one of the seven sins of death on the title page of his series Aus dem Leben eines WÃ¼stlings, published as lithographs only in 1866. There, above a Latin inscription panel, one sees, according to Genelli's description, "a youth sitting on a light chariot drawn by demons, with the vulgar Cupid on his knees, singing tempting songs to him. This Cupid is followed, whirling around the chariot, by the seven deadly sins. "â Genelli's focus on classicism in the mould of his model Carstens, but also the influence of Joseph Anton Koch, with whom he was still personally acquainted, may make his art around 1850 seem âout of timeâ, but only if one looks at the development of art from the perspective of realism and naturalism. For idealists like Hans von MarÃ©es or Adolf von Hildebrand, who entered the field of art a little later, Genelli's concentration on the naked body, which embodied moral purity and truth in equal measure, meant the anticipation of their ideal Greekism. (Text: Peter Prange) Keywords: Figure, drapery, floating, study, robe study, 19th century, Romanticism, People, Germany,
Fichter Kunsthandel
Aug. 26, 2023
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Nude Study, Seated Male Figure, Pencil
Est: €1,350 - €1,800
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Nude Study of a Seated Male Figure with a Cup, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on , mounted on Paper Date: 19th century Description: "Even the first of the drawings aroused my astonishment, and this grew with each new sheet I looked at. Each of them had the unmistakable imprint of a powerful spirit, and I could not doubt that the artist, who stood before me so modestly and unassumingly in poor surroundings, was one of those great geniuses who rarely appear in the course of the centuries and whom one may only approach with reverence. This is what Adolph Friedrich Graf von Schack wrote about his first encounter with Bonaventura Genelli in Munich.â At the time, Schack was largely alone in his enthusiastic judgement of the artist, for Genelli had hardly attracted any attention, apart from the painting of the Roman House of the publisher Hermann HÃ¤rtel in Leipzig, which ended in disaster. Genelli had come to Munich in 1836 in the hope of finding clients here - but this prospect only came true after he met Count von Schack in the summer of 1857. He ordered no fewer than six large-format paintings from him, which are now in the Schack Gallery, and relieved the painter, who was already very old at the time, of his material hardship. Hundreds of nude studies by Genelli have survived - the largest stock is in his estate in the copperplate engraving cabinet of the Academy of Fine Arts in Viennaâ - which he executed very carefully in an effort to achieve sculptural modelling and at the same time a sensuous, vivid rendering of the naked body. As he understood it, these were not sketches, but completed, finished studies that he was able to transfer unchanged to other contexts. Erwin Speckter, the Hamburg painter who associated with Genelli in Rome in the 1820s, saw many of these studies that had impressed him: â€œHis ideas are always new and striking, beautifully given and equally grouped. [A majestic grandeur, a full-bodied life and a great impetus, combined with grace and a genuine antique sense of beauty, are everywhere expressed. "â Genelli's nude studies carry in their idealism a newly awakened, antique Greekism that he was born with early on: From the very beginning, Genelli saw himself as a draughtsman following in the footsteps of the classicist Asmus Jakob Carstens. Is it a coincidence that Genelli was born in Berlin in 1798, the same year that Carstens died in Rome? Genelli's father Janus and his uncle Hans Christian Genelli had been close friends with Carstens, and even in his old age Bonaventura remembered some of Carstens's drawings that were kept in his parents' house. Familiar with ancient mythology from an early age, his stay in Rome, where Genelli lived for ten years from 1822, was of decisive importance for the development of his artistic personality. Here he found Homer and Dante, to whom he dedicated numerous illustrations that do not deny their training in Carstens, Michelangelo and antiquity. Michelangelo's experience of the Sistine had a lasting influence on him - similarly sublime and enormous bodies populate his pictorial worlds, which are not without pathos. It is these very serious, at times eclectic-looking and out-of-time compositions that led Speckter to find details in his drawings "highly mannered and frivolous" and to attest him "a virtuoso genius [â¦] in so-called stealing", "in that one finds many quite faithfully copied figures and groups from other things in his. "â80 Indeed, his executed compositions are reminiscent of Michelangelo and Raphael, whose powerful depictions of man were the inspiration. The main subject of his drawings is the naked human being, but Genelliâ€™s studies go far beyond the mere depiction of the nude: Genelliâ€™s art is carried by the line, the offered sheets are determined by a delicate, gentle line management full of poetry, which strives for the truth already sought by the Nazarenes. His nudes embody a spiritual-moral attitude that tells of antique purity and sublimity. Alongside these were studies in garments of delicate delicacy and at the same time haunting presence, in which he observed certain motifs of movement or garments of individual figures and often repeated the same motif several times, as in one of the present sheets: it is a study for one of the seven sins of death on the title page of his series Aus dem Leben eines WÃ¼stlings, published as lithographs only in 1866. There, above a Latin inscription panel, one sees, according to Genelli's description, "a youth sitting on a light chariot drawn by demons, with the vulgar Cupid on his knees, singing tempting songs to him. This Cupid is followed, whirling around the chariot, by the seven deadly sins. "â Genelli's focus on classicism in the mould of his model Carstens, but also the influence of Joseph Anton Koch, with whom he was still personally acquainted, may make his art around 1850 seem âout of timeâ, but only if one looks at the development of art from the perspective of realism and naturalism. For idealists like Hans von MarÃ©es or Adolf von Hildebrand, who entered the field of art a little later, Genelli's concentration on the naked body, which embodied moral purity and truth in equal measure, meant the anticipation of their ideal Greekism. (Text: Peter Prange) Keywords: Figure, Nude, Study, Drawing, 19th century, Romanticism, People, Germany,
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Aug. 26, 2023
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Nude Study of a Back Figure, Pencil
Est: €1,350 - €1,800
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Nude Study of a Back Figure, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on , mounted on Paper Date: 19th century Description: "Even the first of the drawings aroused my astonishment, and this grew with each new sheet I looked at. Each of them had the unmistakable imprint of a powerful spirit, and I could not doubt that the artist, who stood before me so modestly and unassumingly in poor surroundings, was one of those great geniuses who rarely appear in the course of the centuries and whom one may only approach with reverence. This is what Adolph Friedrich Graf von Schack wrote about his first encounter with Bonaventura Genelli in Munich.â At the time, Schack was largely alone in his enthusiastic judgement of the artist, for Genelli had hardly attracted any attention, apart from the painting of the Roman House of the publisher Hermann HÃ¤rtel in Leipzig, which ended in disaster. Genelli had come to Munich in 1836 in the hope of finding clients here - but this prospect only came true after he met Count von Schack in the summer of 1857. He ordered no fewer than six large-format paintings from him, which are now in the Schack Gallery, and relieved the painter, who was already very old at the time, of his material hardship. Hundreds of nude studies by Genelli have survived - the largest stock is in his estate in the copperplate engraving cabinet of the Academy of Fine Arts in Viennaâ - which he executed very carefully in an effort to achieve sculptural modelling and at the same time a sensuous, vivid rendering of the naked body. As he understood it, these were not sketches, but completed, finished studies that he was able to transfer unchanged to other contexts. Erwin Speckter, the Hamburg painter who associated with Genelli in Rome in the 1820s, saw many of these studies that had impressed him: â€œHis ideas are always new and striking, beautifully given and equally grouped. [A majestic grandeur, a full-bodied life and a great impetus, combined with grace and a genuine antique sense of beauty, are everywhere expressed. "â Genelli's nude studies carry in their idealism a newly awakened, antique Greekism that he was born with early on: From the very beginning, Genelli saw himself as a draughtsman following in the footsteps of the classicist Asmus Jakob Carstens. Is it a coincidence that Genelli was born in Berlin in 1798, the same year that Carstens died in Rome? Genelli's father Janus and his uncle Hans Christian Genelli had been close friends with Carstens, and even in his old age Bonaventura remembered some of Carstens's drawings that were kept in his parents' house. Familiar with ancient mythology from an early age, his stay in Rome, where Genelli lived for ten years from 1822, was of decisive importance for the development of his artistic personality. Here he found Homer and Dante, to whom he dedicated numerous illustrations that do not deny their training in Carstens, Michelangelo and antiquity. Michelangelo's experience of the Sistine had a lasting influence on him - similarly sublime and enormous bodies populate his pictorial worlds, which are not without pathos. It is these very serious, at times eclectic-looking and out-of-time compositions that led Speckter to find details in his drawings "highly mannered and frivolous" and to attest him "a virtuoso genius [â¦] in so-called stealing", "in that one finds many quite faithfully copied figures and groups from other things in his. "â80 Indeed, his executed compositions are reminiscent of Michelangelo and Raphael, whose powerful depictions of man were the inspiration. The main subject of his drawings is the naked human being, but Genelliâ€™s studies go far beyond the mere depiction of the nude: Genelliâ€™s art is carried by the line, the sheets offered are determined by a delicate, gentle line management full of poetry, which strives for the truth that the Nazarenes were already seeking. His nudes embody a spiritual-moral attitude that tells of antique purity and sublimity. Alongside these were studies in garments of delicate delicacy and at the same time haunting presence, in which he observed certain motifs of movement or garments of individual figures and often repeated the same motif several times, as in one of the present sheets: it is a study for one of the seven sins of death on the title page of his series Aus dem Leben eines WÃ¼stlings, published as lithographs only in 1866. There, above a Latin inscription panel, one sees, according to Genelli's description, "a youth sitting on a light chariot drawn by demons, with the vulgar Cupid on his knees, singing tempting songs to him. This Cupid is followed, whirling around the chariot, by the seven deadly sins. "â Genelli's focus on classicism in the mould of his model Carstens, but also the influence of Joseph Anton Koch, with whom he was still personally acquainted, may make his art around 1850 seem âout of timeâ, but only if one looks at the development of art from the perspective of realism and naturalism. For idealists like Hans von MarÃ©es or Adolf von Hildebrand, who entered the field of art a little later, Genelli's concentration on the naked body, which embodied moral purity and truth in equal measure, meant the anticipation of their ideal Greekism. (Text: Peter Prange) Keywords: Figure, Nude, Study, Drawing, Mythology, 19th century, Romanticism, People, Germany,
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Aug. 26, 2023
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Nude Study of a Back Figure, Pencil
Est: €1,350 - €1,800
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Nude Study of a Back Figure, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on , mounted on Paper Date: 19th century Description: "Even the first of the drawings aroused my astonishment and this grew with each new sheet that I looked at. Each of them had the unmistakable stamp of a powerful spirit, and I could not doubt that the artist, who stood before me so modestly and unassumingly in poor surroundings, was one of those great geniuses who rarely appear in the course of the centuries and whom one may only approach with reverence". This is what Adolph Friedrich Graf von Schack wrote about his first encounter with Bonaventura Genelli in Munich.At that time, Schack was largely alone in his enthusiastic judgement of the artist, for Genelli had hardly attracted any attention apart from the painting of the Roman House of the publisher Hermann Härtel in Leipzig, which ended in a falling out. Genelli had come to Munich in 1836 in the hope of finding clients here - but this prospect only came true after he met Count von Schack in the summer of 1857. He ordered no fewer than six large-format paintings from him, which are now in the Schack Gallery, and relieved the painter, who was already very old at the time, of his material hardship. Genelli used the nude study presented here for one of these paintings - on the theatre curtain ordered in 1864, the personification of night spreads her wings over her daughters, the seven deadly sins, beneath the banner.Genelli prepared the Deadly Sin crouching at her lap on the left in the nude study that is characteristic of his entire body of drawings. Hundreds of similar nude studies by him have survived - the largest stock is in his estate in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna - which he executed very carefully in an effort to achieve plastic modelling and at the same time a sensuous, vivid rendering of the naked body. As he saw it, these were not sketches but completed, finished studies which he was able to transfer unchanged to other contexts. Erwin Speckter, the Hamburg painter who kept company with Genelli in Rome in the 1820s, saw many of these studies which had impressed him: "His ideas are always new and striking, beautifully given and equally grouped. [...] a majestic grandeur, a full-bodied life and a great sweep, combined with grace and a genuinely antique sense of beauty, speak themselves everywhere."Genelli's nude studies carry in their ideality a newly awakened, antique Greekism, which he was born with at an early age: From the very beginning, Genelli saw himself as a draughtsman following in the footsteps of the classicist Asmus Jakob Carstens. Is it a coincidence that Genelli was born in Berlin in 1798, the same year that Carstens died in Rome? Genelli's father Janus and his uncle Hans Christian Genelli had been close friends with Carstens, and even in his old age Bonaventura remembered some drawings by Carstens that were kept in his parents' house. Familiar with ancient mythology from an early age, his stay in Rome, where Genelli lived for ten years from 1822, was crucial to the development of his artistic personality. Here he found Homer and Dante, to whom he dedicated numerous illustrations that do not deny their training in Carstens, Michelangelo and antiquity. Michelangelo's experience of the Sistine had a lasting influence on him - similarly sublime and enormous bodies populate his not without pathos%2presented pictorial worlds. It is these very serious, at times eclectic-looking and out-of-time compositions that led Speckter to find details in his drawings "highly mannered and frivolous" and to attest him "a virtuoso genius [...] in so-called stealing", "in that one finds many quite faithfully copied figures and groups from other things in his".Indeed, his executed compositions are reminiscent of Michelangelo and Raphael, whose powerful depictions of people were the inspiration. The main subject of his drawings is the naked human being, but Genelli's studies go far beyond the mere depiction of the nude: Genelli's art is carried by the line, the sheets on offer are determined by a delicately gentle line management full of poetry, which strives for the truth that the Nazarenes were already seeking. His nudes embody a spiritual-moral attitude that tells of antique purity and sublimity. Alongside these were studies in garments of delicate delicacy and at the same time haunting presence, in which he observed certain motifs of movement or garments of individual figures and often repeated the same motif several times, as in one of the present sheets: it is a study for one of the seven deadly sins on the title page of his series Aus dem Leben eines Wüstlings (From the Life of a Profligate), which was not published as lithographs until 1866. According to Genelli's description, a Latin inscription panel shows a youth sitting on "a light chariot drawn by demons, with the vulgar Cupid on his knees, singing tempting songs to him. This Cupid is followed, whirling around the chariot, by the seven deadly sins."Genelli's focus on classicism in the mould of his role model Carstens, but also the influence of Joseph Anton Koch, with whom he was still personally acquainted, may make his art around 1850 seem 'out of time', but only if one looks at the development of art from the perspective of realism and naturalism. For idealists like Hans von Marées or Adolf von Hildebrand, on the other hand, who entered the field of art a little later, Genelli's concentration on the naked body, which embodied moral purity and truth in equal measure, meant the anticipation of their ideal Greekism. (Text: Peter Prange) Keywords: Figure, Nude, Study, Drawing, 19th century, Romanticism, People, Germany,
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Aug. 26, 2023
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Nude study and hand study, Pencil
Est: €1,350 - €1,800
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Nude Study of a Standing Male Figure and Hand Study, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on , mounted on Paper Date: 19th century Description: "Even the first of the drawings aroused my astonishment, and this grew with each new sheet I looked at. Each of them had the unmistakable imprint of a powerful spirit, and I could not doubt that the artist, who stood before me so modestly and unassumingly in poor surroundings, was one of those great geniuses who rarely appear in the course of the centuries and whom one may only approach with reverence. This is what Adolph Friedrich Graf von Schack wrote about his first encounter with Bonaventura Genelli in Munich.â At the time, Schack was largely alone in his enthusiastic judgement of the artist, for Genelli had hardly attracted any attention, apart from the painting of the Roman House of the publisher Hermann HÃ¤rtel in Leipzig, which ended in disaster. Genelli had come to Munich in 1836 in the hope of finding clients here - but this prospect only came true after he met Count von Schack in the summer of 1857. He ordered no fewer than six large-format paintings from him, which are now in the Schack Gallery, and relieved the painter, who was already very old at the time, of his material hardship. Hundreds of nude studies by Genelli have survived - the largest stock is in his estate in the copperplate engraving cabinet of the Academy of Fine Arts in Viennaâ - which he executed very carefully in an effort to achieve sculptural modelling and at the same time a sensuous, vivid rendering of the naked body. As he understood it, these were not sketches, but completed, finished studies that he was able to transfer unchanged to other contexts. Erwin Speckter, the Hamburg painter who associated with Genelli in Rome in the 1820s, saw many of these studies that had impressed him: â€œHis ideas are always new and striking, beautifully given and equally grouped. [A majestic grandeur, a full-bodied life and a great impetus, combined with grace and a genuine antique sense of beauty, are everywhere expressed. "â Genelli's nude studies carry in their idealism a newly awakened, antique Greekism that he was born with early on: From the very beginning, Genelli saw himself as a draughtsman following in the footsteps of the classicist Asmus Jakob Carstens. Is it a coincidence that Genelli was born in Berlin in 1798, the same year that Carstens died in Rome? Genelli's father Janus and his uncle Hans Christian Genelli had been close friends with Carstens, and even in his old age Bonaventura remembered some of Carstens's drawings that were kept in his parents' house. Familiar with ancient mythology from an early age, his stay in Rome, where Genelli lived for ten years from 1822, was of decisive importance for the development of his artistic personality. Here he found Homer and Dante, to whom he dedicated numerous illustrations that do not deny their training in Carstens, Michelangelo and antiquity. Michelangelo's experience of the Sistine had a lasting influence on him - similarly sublime and enormous bodies populate his pictorial worlds, which are not without pathos. It is these very serious, at times eclectic-looking and out-of-time compositions that led Speckter to find details in his drawings "highly mannered and frivolous" and to attest him "a virtuoso genius [â¦] in so-called stealing", "in that one finds many quite faithfully copied figures and groups from other things in his. "â80 Indeed, his executed compositions are reminiscent of Michelangelo and Raphael, whose powerful depictions of man were the inspiration. The main subject of his drawings is the naked human being, but Genelliâ€™s studies go far beyond the mere depiction of the nude: Genelliâ€™s art is carried by the line, the sheets offered are determined by a delicate, gentle line management full of poetry, which strives for the truth that the Nazarenes were already seeking. His nudes embody a spiritual-moral attitude that tells of antique purity and sublimity. Alongside these were studies in garments of delicate delicacy and at the same time haunting presence, in which he observed certain motifs of movement or garments of individual figures and often repeated the same motif several times, as in one of the present sheets: it is a study for one of the seven sins of death on the title page of his series Aus dem Leben eines WÃ¼stlings, published as lithographs only in 1866. There, above a Latin inscription panel, one sees, according to Genelli's description, "a youth sitting on a light chariot drawn by demons, with the vulgar Cupid on his knees, singing tempting songs to him. This Cupid is followed, whirling around the chariot, by the seven deadly sins. "â Genelli's focus on classicism in the mould of his model Carstens, but also the influence of Joseph Anton Koch, with whom he was still personally acquainted, may make his art around 1850 seem âout of timeâ, but only if one looks at the development of art from the perspective of realism and naturalism. For idealists like Hans von MarÃ©es or Adolf von Hildebrand, who entered the field of art a little later, Genelli's concentration on the naked body, which embodied moral purity and truth in equal measure, meant the anticipation of their ideal Greekism. (Text: Peter Prange) Keywords: Figure, Nude, Study, Drawing, 19th century, Romanticism, People, Germany,
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Jun. 09, 2023
Genelli, Bonaventura: Sitzender männlicher Akt, ein Trinkgefäß haltend
Est: €800 - €1,200
Sitzender männlicher Akt, ein Trinkgefäß haltend. -- Bleistift auf dünnem Velin, alt auf einen stärkeren Karton kaschiert. 32,1 x 24,8 cm. Um 1868. -- -- Vorstudie für die zentrale Figur des Bacchus auf Genellis monumentalem Gemälde "Bacchus unter den Musen" von 1868 in der Sammlung Schack der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, München. -- -- - Provenienz: Sammlung Matthias Konrad Rech, Bonn (Lugt 2754a). -- -- - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. -- - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
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Jun. 09, 2023
Genelli, Bonaventura: Pandora umgeben von Zeus, Eris, dem Höllenhund Zerberos und weiteren mythologischen Figuren
Est: €900 - €1,200
Pandora umgeben von Zeus, Eris, dem Höllenhund Zerberos und weiteren mythologischen Figuren. -- Feder in Braun, über Bleistift auf C & I Honig-Bütten. 27,4 x 42,5 cm. Unten rechts in Bleistift bez. (signiert?) "B. Genelli". -- -- -- -- - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. -- - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
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May. 06, 2023
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Historism Villa on the Lake, 1854, Pencil
Est: €120 - €200
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Historism villa on the lake with jetty, 1854, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Inscription: Signed and dated in pencil lower right. Date: 1854 Keywords: 19th century, Romanticism, Architecture, Germany,
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Jan. 06, 2023
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Mars and Cupid, Ares and Eros, Lithography
Est: €300 - €400
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Mars and Cupid, Ares and Eros, The god of war Ares has raised his little son Eros grasps the Corinthian helmet of his father At his feet lies a griffin, 19th century, Lithography Technique: Lithography on PaperPaper Date: 19th century Keywords: Antiquity, Father and Son, 19th century, Biedermeier, Mythology, Germany,
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Dec. 10, 2022
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Historism villa on the lake with jetty, 1854, Pencil
Est: €120 - €200
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Historism villa on the lake with jetty, 1854, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Inscription: Signed and dated in pencil lower right. Date: 1854 Keywords: 19th century, Romanticism, Architecture, Germany,
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Dec. 10, 2022
B. GENELLI (1798-1868), Mythological scene, around 1840, Pen drawing
Est: €4,500 - €6,000
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): Mythological scene: Possibly Hero and Leander, c. 1840, Pen drawing Technique: Pen drawing on Paper Inscription: Signed lower right: "B.: Genelli fect" Date: c. 1840 Description: Bonaventura Genelli is considered an important representative of late classicism in the 19th century. First educated artistically and literarily by his father, who died at an early age, then by his uncle Hans Christian Genelli and the academy professor Johann Erdmann Hummel, he began studying at the academy under Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850) in Berlin in 1814. The spirit of classicism, rooted in the 18th century, captured him as he studied ancient texts and works of art, and he was particularly impressed by the work of the North German classicist Asmus Jacob Carstens (1754-1798). In 1822 Genelli travelled to Rome, and it was not until he was commissioned to fresco the "Roman House" in Leipzig, which was built in 1832, that he returned to Germany. However, he soon left this building site in dispute and without having achieved anything and settled in Munich. Since his return, Genelli always observed with suspicion the changed conception of art, which was characterised by realistic depictions and the art of the Nazarenes. He strictly rejected both and continued to follow an ideal dedicated to antiquity and the Renaissance. This attitude, as well as his participation in the revolution of 1848, made him an outsider in circles of the nobility and some influential artists. Nevertheless, he successfully financed himself through illustration commissions of the Homeric works and the Divina Commedia and received several commissions even in his late creative phase. Among Genelli's outstanding achievements are the three epics of his own devising, "Aus dem Leben eines Wüstlings" (1866), "Aus dem Leben einer Hexe" (1847) and the autobiographical work "Aus dem Leben eines Künstlers" (1861). Some of the drawings for the etched portfolios were made much earlier, especially during the very productive period in Rome. The present design testifies to Genelli's extensive knowledge of ancient mythology as well as art historical iconography, as here he combines several elements into one composition. The theme seems to invert the myth of Hero and Leander. While in the story it is actually Leander who drowns because of the extinguished beacon and Hero who finds him on the beach, in Genelli's work the protagonists swap genders. In Genelli's work, Cupid, who is frequently seen in 17th-century paintings, becomes the genius of death with his torch turned upside down and pointing accusingly at the deceased. The upturned and extinguished torch as a sign of death receives that accusatory tendency in the mythological connection to Hero and Leander and the extinguished beacon. At the same time, the posture of the dead recalls Scheffer von Leonhartshoff's Saint Cecilia, who in turn was inspired by Stefano Maderno's sculpture in Trastevere. Provenance: Auktion Bassenge Nr. 17 (1971), Los Nr. 658 Keywords: Nudes, Genius, Allegory, Hero, Leander, Figures, Genre, 19th century, Classicism, Mythology, Germany,
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Dec. 02, 2022
Genelli, Giovanni Bonaventura: Ludwig der Eiserne lässt Adelige das Land pflügen
Est: €1,200 - €1,800
Ludwig der Eiserne lässt Adelige das Land pflügen. -- Feder in Grau. 64,8 x 42,6 cm. Unten rechts in der Darstellung signiert und datiert "B. Genelli fecit: 1853" sowie unterhalb dieser betitelt "Ludwig der Eiserne Landgraf von Thüringen". -- -- Zwischen 1852 und 1854 führte Genelli für die Großherzogin Maria Pawlowna von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach drei gezeichnete Entwürfe zur Thüringer Landesgeschichte aus (vgl. hierzu Eva Nielsen: Bonaventura Genelli. Werk und Kunstauffassung. Ein Beitrag zur Kunst des späten Klassizismus, Diss. München 2005, S. 77, Anm. 259). In Briefen lässt Genelli die Hoffnung verlautbaren, die Szenen als Fresken ausführen zu können - wohl für das seit 1849 in Restaurierung befindliche Landgrafenzimmer auf der Wartburg. Doch dazu kam es nicht. Stattdessen ging der Auftrag an Moritz von Schwind. In einem Schreiben an Carl Rahl echauffiert sich Genelli, Schwind habe die Idee für die Darstellung Ludwigs des Eisernen mit den vor dem Pflug gespannten Adeligen von ihm übernommen. Ein auf Pergamin überführtes Exemplar derselben Komposition befindet sich in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München (Inv. 35727, abgebildet in op. cit., S. 266). Beigegeben von demselben zwei Federzeichnugen auf Transparentpapier "Deckenentwurf mit geflügelten Figuren und Rankenornamenten" und "Faun und Kind", beide auf demselben Untersatz aufgezogen. -- -- - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. -- - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
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Oct. 22, 2022
B.GENELLI (1798-1868) attributed, Mythological scene with judging goddess, Etching
Est: €150 - €200
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar) attributed: Ancient mythological scene with a winged goddess - Nike? - who sends angels, 19th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Date: 19th century Description: The Madonna-like figure of the group of figures on the left is given a crown by the goddess of heaven, while the group of people on the right is punished with lightning. Keywords: 19th century, Classicism, Mythology, Germany,
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Jun. 03, 2022
Genelli, Giovanni Bonaventura: Minos als Höllenrichter mit Szenen aus Dantes Inferno
Est: €1,800 - €2,400
Minos als Höllenrichter mit Szenen aus Dantes Inferno. -- Feder in Grau auf Transparentpapier. 30,5 x 47,6 cm. Unten rechts signiert und datiert "Genelli fecit 1840". -- -- Genelli schuf in seiner Laufbahn mehrere Illustrationsfolgen zu Dantes Göttlicher Komödie. Erste Zeichnungen entstanden in den 1840er Jahren als eigenständige Kompositionen noch unter dem Einfluss von Joseph Anton Kochs Dekorationen im Casino Massimo in Rom. Im Jahr 1846 erhielt Genelli einen Auftrag für eine weitere Folge von Zeichnungen zu dem Thema. Diese Folge von 36 gestochenen Blatt in 9 Lieferungen wurde von Max Jordan 1865 mit Begleittexten auf Deutsch, Italienisch und Französisch anlässlich des 600. Geburtstags von Dante herausgegeben. Eine zweite Auflage erschien 1867. -- -- - Provenienz: Galerie Grünwald, München. -- Privatsammlung Niedersachsen. -- -- - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. -- - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
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Dec. 02, 2021
Genelli, Giovanni Bonaventura: nach. Umrisse zu Dante's Göttlicher Commödie
Est: €200 - €250
nach. Umrisse zu Dante's Göttlicher Commödie (Heft 1 und 2). 8 Kupferstiche von Hermann Schütz, je vier Blatt lose in zwei originalen Schutzumschlägen (minimal fleckig, Knitterspuren, Falz innen verstärkt). Quer-4to. Stuttgart, J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung (In Commission der Literarisch-artistischen Anstalt, München), (1846-49). Vgl. Volkmann, Iconografia Dantesca, London 1899, S. 146. Der Berliner Künstler Giovanni Bonaventura Genelli verbrachte zehn Jahre in Rom (1822-32), wo er in Joseph Anton Koch einen väterlichen Freund und Mentor fand. Nach seiner Rückkehr ließ er sich in München nieder, wo ihn ansässige Künstler dazu animierten, Dantes Göttliche Komödie zu illustrieren. Ein Abonnement sollte die laufenden Kosten decken. So erschien zwischen 1846 und 1849 ein Korpus von 36 Zeichnungen, zunächst einzeln in Heften à je vier Tafeln publiziert, die erst später als ganze Serie herausgegeben werden sollten. Die originalen Vorlagenzeichnungen verwahrt das Dresdener Kupferstich-Kabinett. In der klaren Einfachheit und Linearität ist Genellis Stil sicherlich Erbe von Asmus Jacob Carstens und natürlich Koch, doch charakterisiert ihn auch der Anspruch, Körpern trotz reduziertester Mittel, Plastizität zu verleihen - das Studium von Michelangelos Fresken in Rom tritt dabei sinnfällig zutage. - Die seltenen ersten beiden Hefte mit Illustrationen zu Dantes Inferno, dem ersten Teil der Göttlichen Komödie, in den originalen Umschlägen in sämtlich ganz ausgezeichneten, feinzeichnenden Drucken mit breitem Rand. Leicht fleckig bzw. stockfleckig, links mit Heftspuren, vereinzelt kurze Randeinrisschen und Bestoßungen, die unteren rechten Ecken der Blätter in Heft 2 mit Knickfalten, weitere Altersspuren, im Gesamteindruck gleichwohl gut. - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
Bassenge Auctions
Jan. 30, 2021
Bonaventura Genelli, 1798-1863, illustration for Hamlet
Est: €380 - €750
Bonaventura Genelli, 1798-1863, illustration for Hamlet, Act V, Scene I, Do you believe that Alexander in the Erde looked like this?, Pencil on paper, signed lower right, approx. 24x21cm . German Description: Bonaventura Genelli, 1798-1863, Illustration zu Hamlet, Aufzug V, Szene I, Gleubst du dass Alexander in der Erde solchergerstalt aussah ?, Bleistift auf Papier, rechts unten signiert, ca. 24x21cm
Henry's Auktionshaus
Jan. 03, 2021
GENELLI, BONAVENTURA
Est: CHF200 - CHF300
(Berlin 1798–1868 Weimar) Zugeschrieben Studie, bzw. Teilstudie zweier weiblicher Akte. Bleistiftzeichnung. Unten rechts bez. "Nm 7". 24,5x35,2 cm.
Schuler Auktionen
Dec. 07, 2020
GENELLI, BONAVENTURA
Est: CHF200 - CHF300
(Berlin 1798–1868 Weimar) Zugeschrieben Studie, bzw. Teilstudie zweier weiblicher Akte. Bleistiftzeichnung. Unten rechts bez. "Nm 7". 24,5x35,2 cm.
Schuler Auktionen
Nov. 27, 2020
Genelli, Bonaventura, Sphinx und Melpomene
Est: -
Genelli, Bonaventura — Spinx and Melpomene (Berlin 1798-1868 Weimar) Pen-and-ink drawing, sepia wash. Signed at lower right. Sheet 35,5 x 50,4 cm; not framed. - Smaller margin tears. // Genelli, Bonaventura Sphinx und Melpomene (Berlin 1798-1868 Weimar) Tuschfederzeichnung, Sepia laviert. Rechts unten sign. Blatt 35,5 x 50,4 cm; unger. - Kleinere Randeinrisse.
Kunstauktionshaus Schlosser
Nov. 22, 2020
B. GENELLI (*1798), Life of a witch, 1847, 10 engravings, complete set
Est: €1,400 - €2,300
Heinrich Merz (1806 St. Gallen - 1857 Kufstein), After Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar): The Life of a Witch, 1847, 10 Kupferstiche , inklusive Titelblatt, Widmungsblatt and sheet with einleitendem Text in originaler Mappe Technique: 10 Kupferstiche on paper, inklusive Titelblatt, Widmungsblatt and sheet with einleitendem Text in originaler Mappe Size: 17 x 24 in Inscription: Inscribed typographically on title page with "Das Leben einer Hexe in Zeichnungen von | Bonaventura Genelli, gestochen von Heinrich Merz und C. Gonzenbach. | mit erläuternden Bemerkungen von Dr. Hermann Ulrici. | Auf Kosten der Verlagshandlungen Julius Buddeus in Düsseldorf und Rudolph Weigel in Leipzig.", and "Auf Kosten von Julius Buddeus in Düsseldorf & Rudolph Weigel in Leipzig | Druck von H. Felsing in Darmstadt"
Fichter Kunsthandel
Sep. 26, 2020
Bonaventura Genelli (1798-1868), Jason and Medea steal the Golden Fleece, 1839, Etching
Est: €100 - €150
Bonaventura Genelli (1798 Berlin - 1868 Weimar), Jason and Medea steal the Golden Fleece, 1839, Etching Technique: Etching on China paper, mounted on paper Size: 27,3 x 38,2 cm, Depiction: 20,5 x 28 cm | 10 3/4 x 15 in Inscription: Below the image inscribed in the plate: "Julius Buddeus excudit | Genelli." Condition: Perfect condition. Platemark slightly broken along the left edge of the sheet. Minor margin tear at the bottom. Description: Typical illustration of Genelli of a classic saga. Shows the hero Jason with Medea and the Argonauts stealing the Golden Fleece of the ram Chrysomeles. Series: Album deutscher Künstler in Originalradirungen, 19 Cat.Rais.: Andresen Handbuch.I.560.1 Keywords: Antiquity, Romanticism, Mythology, Neoclassicism, Snake, Fashion, Homer, Classical Literature, Odyssey, Geniuses, Mythology, Antiquity
Fichter Kunsthandel
Sep. 12, 2020
Genelli, Bonaventura
Est: -
Genelli, Bonaventura Das Leben einer Hexe in Zeichnungen. Folge von 10 Radierungen von Heinrich Merz und C. Gonzenbach, nach Zeichnungen Genellis. Düsseldorf, J. Buddeus u. Leipzig, R. Weigel, o.J. (1847). Lose Bl. mit Titelblatt, gedruckter Widmung für Ritter Peter von Cornelius u. 1 Bl. erläuternden Bemerkungen von Hermann Ulrici. Plattenmaße je ca. 34-36 x 47,5-49 cm, Blattmaße je ca. 44,5 x 62,5 cm. Quer-Fol. In Pp.-Lieferungs-Mappe d. Zt. mit DTitel u. 2 (v. 4) Bindebändern (fleckig, angeschmutzt. beschabt, bestoßen, Rücken mit Läsuren u. Fehlstellen). Rumann 538. - Thieme-B. XIII, 382. - V.a. in den Rändern braun- u. stockfleckig, tls. mit kl. Randeinrissen bzw. -läsuren, Textblätter stellenw. angeknickt. 10 etchings after Genelli. In contemp. cardboard folder with title to board and 2 (of 4) ties /stained, siled, bumped, chafed, spine with defects). - Brownstained and foxed, marginal defects.
Jeschke Jádi Auctions Berlin GmbH
Jul. 31, 2020
Genelli, Bonaventura - Das Leben einer Hexe in Ze…
Est: €300 -
Genelli, Bonaventura Das Leben einer Hexe in Zeichnungen. Folge von 10 Radierungen von Heinrich Merz und C. Gonzenbach, nach Zeichnungen Genellis. Düsseldorf, J. Buddeus u. Leipzig, R. Weigel, o.J. (1847). Lose Bl. mit Titelblatt, gedruckter Widmung für Ritter Peter von Cornelius u. 1 Bl. erläuternden Bemerkungen von Hermann Ulrici. Plattenmaße je ca. 34-36 x 47,5-49 cm, Blattmaße je ca. 44,5 x 62,5 cm. Quer-Fol. In Pp.-Lieferungs-Mappe d. Zt. mit DTitel u. 2 (v. 4) Bindebändern (fleckig, angeschmutzt. beschabt, bestoßen, Rücken mit Läsuren u. Fehlstellen). Rumann 538. - Thieme-B. XIII, 382. - V.a. in den Rändern braun- u. stockfleckig, tls. mit kl. Randeinrissen bzw. -läsuren, Textblätter stellenw. angeknickt. 10 etchings after Genelli. In contemp. cardboard folder with title to board and 2 (of 4) ties /stained, siled, bumped, chafed, spine with defects). - Brownstained and foxed, marginal defects. RefMod24720
Jeschke Jádi Auctions Berlin GmbH
Jul. 07, 2020
GENELLI, BONAVENTURA
Est: CHF400 - CHF600
(Berlin 1798–1868 Weimar) Zugeschrieben Studie, bzw. Teilstudie zweier weiblicher Akte. Bleistiftzeichnung. Unten rechts bez. "Nm 7". 24,5x35,2 cm.
Schuler Auktionen
Jun. 22, 2020
GENELLI, BONAVENTURA
Est: CHF400 - CHF600
(Berlin 1798–1868 Weimar) Zugeschrieben Studie, bzw. Teilstudie zweier weiblicher Akte. Bleistiftzeichnung. Unten rechts bez. "Nm 7". 24,5x35,2 cm.
Schuler Auktionen
Jun. 19, 2020
BONAVENTURA GENELLI
Est: CHF1,000 - CHF1,500
BONAVENTURA GENELLI (Berlin 1798 - 1868 Weimar) Joseph and Potiphar's wife. Pencil, watercolour. 42 x 51 cm. Framed. Annotated verso: 29.9.36 vom Kunstreferat Archiv 1445/55. Provenance: - Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna (1836 - 1909), Prague, Lugt 1659. - Alexander Flinsch Collection, Berlin. - Fürst von Lichtenstein, Vaduz. - Auktionshaus Ketterer, Stuttgart, May 1953. - Swiss private collection. --------------- BONAVENTURA GENELLI (Berlin 1798 - 1868 Weimar) Joseph und Potiphars Weib. Bleistift, Aquarell. 42 x 51 cm. Gerahmt. Verso bezeichnet: 29.9.36 vom Kunstreferat Archiv 1445/55. Provenienz: - Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna (1836 - 1909), Prag, Lugt 1659. - Sammlung Alexander Flinsch, Berlin. - Fürst von Lichtenstein, Vaduz. - Auktionshaus Ketterer, Stuttgart, Mai 1953. - Privatbesitz Schweiz.
Koller Auctions
Jun. 05, 2020
Genelli, Bonaventura: Sappho unterrichtet eine Schülerin
Est: €2,400 - €2,800
Sappho unterrichtet eine Schülerin. Feder in Grau, braun laviert, über Bleistift. 34,6 x 52,9 cm. Rechts unterhalb der Darstellung signiert "Buonaventura Genelli fect". In einem Rahmen aus der 1. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit Palmettenfries. Das Leben der antiken griechischen Dichterin Sappho ist nur in späteren Legenden aufgezeichnet. Demnach entstammte sie einem alten Adelsgeschlecht, das in Mytilene auf Lesbos seinen Sitz hatte. Als Mitglied der Familie wurde Sappho stellvertretend für einige Jahre nach Sizilien verbannt. Als sie um das Jahr 591 v. Chr. nach Lesbos zurückkehrte, versammelte sie dort eine Schar junger Mädchen vornehmer Herkunft als Schülerinnen um sich. Sie unterrichtete die jungen Frauen in musischen Fertigkeiten wie Poesie, Musik, Gesang und Tanz und trat mit ihnen bei Festen zu Ehren der Götter auf. Genellis Interesse an griechischer Literatur führte dazu, dass er Sappho mehrfach in seinen Werken darstellte, etwa in einer Zeichnung "Sappho singt vor einer Gruppe griechischer Frauen (s. Hans Ebert: Buonaventura Genelli. Leben und Werk. Weimar 1971, Abb. 37). - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
Bassenge Auctions
Nov. 29, 2019
Genelli, Bonaventura: Die Zentaurenfamilie mit dem Löwenjungen
Est: €700 - €900
Die Zentaurenfamilie mit dem Löwenjungen. - Bleistift auf chamoisfarbenem Transparentpapier, auf Karton kaschiert. 34,5 x 48,7 cm. Unten links wohl signiert "Genelli". -- Bei der Darstellung handelt sich um einen Zentauren, der seine Familie mit einem kleinen Löwenjungen erschreckt. Ikonographisch geht die Komposition auf ein von Lukian beschriebenes Bild des Zeuxis zurück. Genelli war das Motiv durch seinen Lehrer Johann Erdmann Hummel bekannt, und bezeichnete es sogar als eines seiner Lieblingskompositionen. Das Museum für bildende Kunst in Leipzig verwahrt eine durchgeführte Bleistiftzeichnung derselben Komposition, die sich nur in sehr wenigen Details unterscheidet (Inv. Nr. NI 8462). Eva Nielsen sieht in den Figuren Genellis eigene Familie: seine Frau Caroline sowie die drei Kinder Gabriele, Laetitia und Camillo. -- Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. -- Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
Bassenge Auctions
Sep. 22, 2017
GENELLI, BONAVENTURA
Est: CHF1,000 - CHF1,300
GENELLI, BONAVENTURA (Berlin 1798 - 1863 Weimar) Seated female nude, holding up a torch. 1833. Pencil, smeared, on light brown paper. 29.8 x 46.5 (unevenly trimmed). --------------- GENELLI, BONAVENTURA (Berlin 1798 - 1863 Weimar) Sitzender weiblicher Akt, eine Fackel hochhaltend. 1833. Bleistift, gewischt, auf hellbraunem Papier. 29,8 x 46,5 (unregelmässig beschnitten).
Koller Auctions