302nd Sale- July 4/5, 2025
Modern art from the estate of a manufacturer in southern Germany & art and antiques from regional private collectors
The 302nd auction on Friday/Saturday, 4/5 July 2025 will be colorful and diverse: as always, the focus will be on modern art, but the areas of Old Master Paintings, Asian art, old books and prints, antiques, jewelry and furniture can also come up with fine pieces and rarities.
Highlights of modern art include Joseph Beuys’ large colour lithograph “Hind” from 1979 (estimate: € 2500-2800 / reserve price: € 20), a 4-part acrylic painting by Karl Duschek from 2000 (estimate: € 3000-4000 / reserve price: € 750), the color woodcut “People in the Forest” by Conrad Felixmüller from 1918 (estimate: € 3500-4000 / reserve price: € 20), the bronze diptych by Dani Karavan, 1969-71 (estimate: € 3000-4000 / reserve price: € 900), an oil painting with a girl on a swing by Kuniyoshi Kaneko, dated 1965 (estimate: € 7000-9000 / reserve price: € 3000), the light object “LightScapes” from 2015 by Rosalie (estimate: € 3000-5000 / reserve price: € 750), the large undated composition “no.6023” in oil by K. R. H. Sonderborg, 1971 (estimate: € 9000-10000 / reserve price: € 3000) and Günther Uecker’s embossed print nail spiral from 1999 (estimate: € 9000-10000 / reserve price: € 20), to name just a few. The 10 bronze reliefs by Gustav Seitz from the years 1963-67 can be described as a small sensation, including “Harvest”, “Girlfriends II”, “Striding Couple from Behind”, “Girl Loves Torso”, and “Three Graces”, which he made for the Porta d’Amore. The Porta d’Amore was commissioned by the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg to the sculptor, but it was not put together until after his death by his pupil Edgar Augustin in 1970. 41 bas-reliefs adorn this bronze north-west portal of the museum as well as a sculpturally shaped handle in the form of a female nude, all of which were cast between 1961 and 1969. The reliefs show predominantly stylized nudes, some in surprisingly explicit poses. Parts of the door, including these reliefs, were shown as individual reliefs at documenta III in Kassel in 1964 and at the Venice Biennale in 1968 (estimates: € 1200-3500 / reserve prices: € 450-1200).
Interesting collection estates are also included again, including those of the International Woodcutters’ Association Xylon, Hans Martin Ehrhardt, Martel Wiegand, Elisabeth Schmitz, Banksy, Rolf Urban, etc.
In the field of Old Master Paintings, two outstanding paintings should be mentioned here: the large oil painting with Venus and Mars from around 1640, attributed to Thomas Bosschaert Willeboirt, with appraisal (estimate: € 8000-9000 / reserve price: € 2700) and the masterful breast portrait of a young woman from the circle of the English neoclassicist John William Godward in oil around 1905 (estimate: € 3000-3500 / reserve price: € 650).
In the section of Asian art, Tibetan, Indian and Japanese cult and ritual objects will make collectors’ hearts beat faster, such as the bronze sculptures Sadbhuja Mahakala of the 17th century (estimate: € 4000-5000 / reserve price: € 1800), Yama Darmaraja of the 18th century (estimate: € 2500-3000 / reserve price: € 900) and the large Jain altar from northern India, dated 1465/66 (estimate: € 4000-5000/ reserve price: € 1800) as well as the tanto, a dagger with a signed blade, probably from the Muromachi period of the 15th/16th century (estimate: € 2500-3000 / reserve price: € 1500). Also sensational is the larger-than-life head of the Buddha Muchalinda of the Khmer from Cambodia, probably 11th/12th century (estimate: € 3500-5000 / reserve price: € 1200).
In addition to silver, porcelain, glass (e.g. Lalique, Schneider), beautiful jewelry (e.g. hoop earrings by Fope), old books and maps (e.g. the first edition of System of Universal Geography, London from 1787-88 and the first edition of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality from 1887), a few antiquities from certain old collections are noteworthy this time: a female head made of limestone from Cyprus around 470/60 BC (estimate: € 6000-7000 /reserve price: € 2000), a stone vessel made of diorite from Egypt around 3100-2600 BC (estimate: € 5000-7000 / reserve price: € 1500) and a male alabaster head from Egypt, probably Old Kingdom, 2550-2460 BC (estimate: € 5000-6000 / reserve price: € 800). As is well known, the need for security in the country has been increasing lately – we have a few great objects that could help: a carriage chest, so-called “war chest”, southern German 17th century (estimate: € 1800-2000/ reserve price: € 600) and a target rifle by Ph. Rheinberger, Neustadt, H(aardt) around 1870/80 (estimate: € 1500-1800 / reserve price: € 600). If that doesn’t help!