Karl Blechen

Lot 5: KARL BLECHEN

Name: KARL BLECHEN
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 812430cfc5

Est: £20,000 GBP - £30,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJune 11, 2012

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF ALFRED SOMMERGUTH, BERLIN
GERMAN
1798-1840
WALD MIT KLEINEM WEIHER (FOREST INTERIOR WITH POND)
oil on panel
15.5 by 20.5cm., 6 by 8in.

Artist or Maker

Karl Blechen

Literature

Guido Joseph Kern, Karl Blechen. Sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin, 1911, p. 166
Paul Ortwin Rave, 'Karl Blechen', in Denkmäler deutscher Kunst, Berlin, 1940, p. 476, no. 1910, catalogued; p. 477, illustrated

Provenance

Christian Brose, Berlin (sale: Holstein & Puppel Kunstantiquariat, Berlin, 8 November 1928, lot 17)
Alfred Sommerguth, Berlin (acquired at the above sale; forced sale: H.W. Lange, Berlin, 7 February 1939, lot 30)
Walther Lorenz, Berlin (by 1940)
Sale: Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 7 June 1996, lot 5693
Fürst-Pückler-Museum und Schloss Branitz, Cottbus (purchased at the above sale)
Restituted to the heirs of Alfred Sommerguth in 2011

Auction Details

European Paintings

Sotheby's

June 11, 2012, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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