Josef Hartwig Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Josef Hartwig Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 13, 2024
JOSEF HARTWIG (1880-1955), GERMAN
Est: -
Josef Hartwig (1880-1955), German sculptor, foreman at the Bauhaus in Weimar, ''Owl'', brown papier-mâché bronze, unsigned, h. 17 cm
Historia Auctionata
Jun. 06, 2024
Josef Hartwig, Bauhaus chess set
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Josef Hartwig Bauhaus chess set Bauhaus Weimar Germany, 1923 carved and painted pearwood wood, beachwood, brass 2.5 h x 5.25 w x 5.25 d in (6 x 13 x 13 cm) This complete thirty-two piece set is comprised of stained or painted pearwood pieces housed in original beachwood box. Each piece was designed by Hartwig to reflect the moves it can make in the game. Incised signature to interior lid 'Hartwig Bauhaus Weimar Ges. Gesch'. Provenance: Maharam Family Collection Literature: Bauhaus Weimar, Siebenbrodt, pg. 183 illustrates variation Schachspiele Wandel Im Laufe Der Kunst - Und Kulturgeschichte, Siebert, pg. 77 This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
Wright
Mar. 27, 2024
Josef Hartwig German Bauhaus Minimalist Chess Set
Est: $1,000 - $3,000
Josef Hartwig (German, 1880-1956). A vintage German wood chess set, circa 1920s. Titled, "Bauhaus Schachspiel" ("Bauhaus Chess"). A rectangular wood base with lacquered finish accompanied with 32 detailed wood chess pieces in abstract geometric shapes. No apparent maker marks. Board measures approximately .25" x 20" x 20". Largest pieces measure approximately 2.25" x 1.35" x 1.35", Pawns measure approximately .65" x .65" x .65". Dimensions: .25 X 20 X 20 in. Condition: Good overall condition having mild surface wear to edges and corners of chess pieces. Estate fresh to the market. Shipping: Hill Auction Gallery offers in-house ground contiguous USA domestic shipping, excluding New Mexico, for $95 plus insurance. Gallery will refer third party shippers for international buyers. Purchaser pick up available upon request.
Hill Auction Gallery
Feb. 01, 2024
Josef Hartwig German Bauhaus Minimalist Chess Set
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Josef Hartwig (German, 1880-1956). A vintage German wood chess set, circa 1920s. Titled, "Bauhaus Schachspiel" ("Bauhaus Chess"). A rectangular wood base with lacquered finish accompanied with 32 detailed wood chess pieces in abstract geometric shapes. No apparent maker marks. Board measures approximately .25" x 20" x 20". Largest pieces measure approximately 2.25" x 1.35" x 1.35", Pawns measure approximately .65" x .65" x .65". Dimensions: .25 X 20 X 20 in. Condition: Good overall condition having mild surface wear to edges and corners of chess pieces. Estate fresh to the market. Shipping: Hill Auction Gallery offers in-house ground contiguous USA domestic shipping, excluding New Mexico, for $95 plus insurance. Gallery will refer third party shippers for international buyers. Purchaser pick up available upon request.
Hill Auction Gallery
Dec. 08, 2021
JOSEF HARTWIG (GERMAN, 1880-1955) BAUHAUS CHESS SET, GERMANY, CIRCA 1924
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Josef Hartwig (German, 1880-1955) Bauhaus Chess Set, Germany, circa 1924 Original wood box complete with thirty-two playing pieces The pieces: stained and ebonized maple The interior lid stamped: "HARTWIG/GES.GESCH." The two Queens stamped: "GES.GESCH." (H: 2 1/2, W: 5 1/4, L: 5 1/2 in. (box)) Provenance Acquired in Germany Thence by descent to Private Collection, Main Line, Pennsylvania Footnote: Literature Bauhaus-Archiv, Experiment Bauhaus, (1988), pp. 400–01 (for a similar example) Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, and Ise Gropius eds., Bauhaus 1919-1928, (1938), pg. 44 (for a similar example) Magdalena Droste and Bauhaus Archiv, Bauhaus: 1919–1933, (1993), pg. 94 (for a similar example) Magdalena Droste and Peter Hahn, et al., eds., Bauhaus Archive Berlin: The Collection, (1999), pp. 88, 90 (for a discussion of the artist and a similar example) Jeannine Fiedler and Peter Feierabend, Bauhaus, (2000), pp. 406, 417, 633 (for similar examples) Larry List, "Joseph Hartwig's Bauhaus Chess Set: Dr Zilboorg's Contribution," in The Imagery of Chess Revisited, (2005). pp. 55-60
Freeman's | Hindman
Nov. 03, 2021
JOSEF HARTWIG (1880-1955) JEU D'ÉCHECS ET SA BOÎTE, RÉALISÉS PAR L'ATELIER
Est: €12,000 - €18,000
JOSEF HARTWIG (1880-1955) JEU D'ÉCHECS ET SA BOÎTE, RÉALISÉS PAR L'ATELIER DE SCULPTURE DU BAUHAUS, Boîte : 6 x 12,8 x 12,6 cm / box : 2 3/8 x 5 1/8 x 5 in
Christie's
Nov. 23, 2019
Josef Hartwig, Bauhaus Dessau, Bauhaus Chess Game in Box
Est: €12,000 - €24,000
Bauhaus chess game. Designed 1924, executed by the Bauhaus Dessau after 1926. Wood, partly black stained, brass clasp. 6.1 x 13.6 x 13.4 cm. In the lid with Embossing stamp: HARTWIG BAUHAUS DESSAU GES. GESCH. On the underside handwritten in pencil 11/50. This model is the model XVI, which is even more reduced in the design of the figures than the previous models. In the years 1921-25 the sculptor Josef Hartwig was the foreman of the wood and stone sculptures at the Bauhaus. Already since 1922, he dealt with the contemporary redesign of the more than a thousand-year-old strategy game, which had developed in his opinion in the last two hundred years from the 'imitation of the struggle between two armies' to a 'purely abstract intellectual game'. In the abstract geometric design of his pieces, the gait and value of the individual figures is logically reproduced. With this redesign Hartwig managed one of the biggest commercial successes of the Bauhaus.
Kunst und Design Auktionshaus Schops Turowski
Sep. 18, 2019
JOSEF HARTWIG (1880-1955) Bauhaus chess set, model XVI King 5 cm., Pawn 22 mm. Box 124 x 124 x 52 mm.
Est: £15,000 - £20,000
JOSEF HARTWIG (1880-1955) Bauhaus chess set, model XVI the complete set of 32 pieces in blonde and ebonised beech wood, 1923-24, in the original cardboard box, with paper label DAS BAUHAUS SCHACH SPIEL VON JOSEF HARTWIG, the label designed by Joost Schmidt (1893-1948), with a German copyright stamp on the underside of the queens, manufactured at the Bauhaus, Dessau, 1923-24, some minor wear, the box with some staining, generally in good condition King 5 cm., Pawn 22 mm. Box 124 x 124 x 52 mm.
Christie's
Oct. 30, 2018
JOSEF HARTWIG | Chess Set, Model No. XVI
Est: £6,000 - £8,000
together with -- Mills, John Augustus, Chess Gems: Some of the finest examples of Chess Strategy, by Ancient and Modern Masters, Fakenham, 1890
Sotheby's
Oct. 06, 2017
JOSEF HARTWIG AND JOOST SCHMIDT | Rare Chess Set, model no. XVI
Est: £30,000 - £40,000
Comprising: thirty two Chess Pieces, Card Box, together with a Game Board by another hand
Sotheby's
Nov. 18, 2016
Josef Hartwig (German, 1880-1955) Schachspiel XVI (Ches
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
Josef Hartwig (German, 1880-1955) Schachspiel XVI (Chess Set), circa 1924, Bauhaus Stained and natural pear wood 1-7/8 inches high (4.8 cm) (king) Box stamped HARTWIG/ BAUHAUS/ DESSAU/ GES. GESCH. Master of wood and stonework, Josef Hartwig, taught at Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921-1925. During his time at the school, Hartwig designed this simplified chess set which reduced the identities of each piece into rigid angles and spheres. In keeping with Gropius' teachings, this severe set is an example of the school's building and material ethics, simple and honest. The thirty-two pieces are housed in their original box.
Heritage Auctions
Nov. 29, 2014
Hartwig, Josef: Bauhaus-Schachspiel
Est: €4,500 - €6,000
Bauhaus-Schachspiel 32 Holzfiguren in unterschiedlichen geometrischen Formen in quadratischer, schwarz-roter Holzschatulle mit Klappdeckel. 1923/24. 8,4 x 15,6 x 15,3 cm. Im Inneren der Schatulle verschraubtes Messingschild mit der Prägung "Hartwig Ges. Gesch." und dem Prägestempel "Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar". Der Bildhauer Josef Hartwig war von 1921 bis 1925 Werkmeister für Holz- und Steinbildhauerei am Weimarer Bauhaus und ein aktiver Schachspieler. 1922 begann er mit der Arbeit an einer formalen Neuinterpretation des Schachspiels, die einem radikalen Bruch mit allen traditionellen Spielfiguren gleichkam. Es entstand ein funktionalistisches Schachspiel, eines der erfolgreichsten Produkte des Bauhauses, das weite Verbreitung und zahlreiche Nachahmer fand. "Hartwigs Schachspiel wurde seit dem Beginn einer umfangreicheren Serienproduktion im Jahr 1924 in zwei Kategorien als 'Gebrauchsspiel' und als 'Luxusspiel' angeboten, die sich nicht nur im Material, sondern auch in ihrer Form unterschieden... Bei den weiterhin in handwerklicher Einzelanfertigung oder in kleineren Serien hergestellten Luxusausführungen zeigte sich Hartwig flexibler und experimentierfreudiger" (Das Bauhaus-Schachspiel von Josef Hartwig, Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 2006, S. 16). So entstanden verschiedene Figurenvarianten in einer breiten Palette unterschiedlicher Holzarten. Die Spielfiguren passen maßgenau und unter optimaler Ausnutzung des Raumes in den Kasten. Die aus dem Quadrat der Spielfelder abgeleiteten Kubusformen von Bauer, Turm und König standen von Anfang an fest, während Dame, Läufer und Springer mehrere Formwandlungen durchliefen. In ihrer reduzierten Form verdeutlichen die Figuren zugleich ihre jeweiligen Bewegungsmöglichkeiten im Spiel. Es sind sieben Formvarianten des Bauhaus-Schachspiels bekannt, deren Figuren sich zum Teil erheblich, zum Teil auch nur in Details voneinander unterscheiden. Vier dieser Varianten hat Hartwig auf einem um 1924 gedruckten Prospekt zusammengestellt und mit den Modellnummern I, VII, XIV und XVI versehen. Bei unserem Spiel handelt es sich um eines der Luxusspiele, das Modell VII, dem das Spielbrett nicht zugehörig ist, und zwar in der seltenen Ausführung mit geprägtem Messingschild im Kasteninneren. Fünf verschiedene Varianten der Prägung sind zur Zeit bekannt. Die Schachspiele wurden von Josef Hartwig selbst und in verschiedenen Bauhauswerkstätten angefertigt und dann sowohl vom Künstler als auch direkt durch das Bauhaus vertrieben, erst in Weimar, 1925 auch in Dessau. - Provenienz: Privatsammlung Sachsen - Literatur: "Das Bauhaus-Schachspiel von Josef Hartwig". Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 2006
Bassenge Auctions
Mar. 26, 2013
After Josef Hartwig's Weimar: a chess set, in
Est: £100 - £200
After Josef Hartwig's Weimar: a chess set, in modern design by Alcoa Laboratories to celebrate their Centennial Technical Symposia 1986-88, with aluminium-lithium board, in presentation box. Note: Josef Hartwig, (German 1880-1955), Architectural Designer at the Bauhaus School. He designed his original chess set design in 1924 in plain and stained black pear wood. These commemorative sets were given as gifts to people who had a hand in the afore mentioned Symposia. This particular one was gifted to Prof Norman Laws, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.
Anderson-Garland
Apr. 07, 2011
JOSEF HARTWIG
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
Rare chess set, model no. XVI Produced by Bauhaus Weimar, Germany. Box impressed with ‘HARTWIG/BAUHAUS/WEIMAR/GES,GESCH’. Together with the original box (33).
Phillips
Dec. 01, 2009
Josef Hartwig. Bauhaus chess set, designed in
Est: €10,000 - €12,000
Josef Hartwig. Bauhaus chess set, designed in 1924. H. 3 - 3.9 cm. Made by Bauhaus Weimar. Maplewood, clear and stained black. In original box: H. 8.5 cm; 15.3 x 15.3 cm. Nutwood. Inside marked: HARTWIG BAUHAUS WEIMAR GES. GESCH.; chessboard, 46 x 46 cm, nutwood with rosewood and European hornbeam veneer.
Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen GmbH
Feb. 14, 2009
Hartwig Josef 1880 1956 A Bauhaus chess By Bauhaus
Est: - €2,000
Hartwig Josef 1880 1956 A Bauhaus chess By Bauhaus Dessau c. 1926. Design 1923/24. Wood, nature and black glazed. The lady's figures marked 'GES. GESCH'. Execution Bauhaus Dessau c. 1926. Wood box inside marked 'HARTWIG BAUHAUS DESSAU GES. GESCH.' 32 pieces. Lady and king H. 4,8 cm. Box H. 6 cm, 13,5 x 13,5 cm.
Auktionshaus Stahl
Jun. 13, 2008
JOSEF HARTWIG (1880-1956)
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
JOSEF HARTWIG (1880-1956) A Partly Ebonized Pearwood Chess Set in Oak Box, 1923/24 box: 3 in. (7.5 cm.) high, 5 in. (12.7 cm.) square inside cover impressed Hartwig Bauhaus Dessau Ges. Gesch.
Christie's
May. 24, 2007
Rare chess set, model XVI
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
Rare chess set, model XVI
Phillips