<b>An armchair,</b> for the Paula Modersohn-Becker House,
}.webp', extensionName: 'dorotheum')})
Bernhard Hoetger, Germany, c. 1927, natural wood, woven rush, height 70.5 cm, width 53 cm, depth 60 cm. (DR) This chair formed part of the furnishings of the Paula Modersohn-Becker House in Böttcherstraße in Bremen, an architectural highlight of Expressionist German architecture.The house was conceived by the sculptor Bernhard Hoetger in the form of a gesamtkunstwerk and was part of the unified architectural setting of Böttcherstraße, including restaurants, elegant clubs, workshops, and a museum to house the collection of the initiator and sponsor of the entire complex, the Bremen-based entrepreneur Ludwig Roselin. Roselin was the owner of the Kaffee HAAG company and an admirer of the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. Provenance: Böttcherstraße Art Collections, Bremen; Galerie Klaus Gramse, Cologne. Literature: M. Anczykowski, Bernhard Hoetger. Skulptur Malerei Design Architektur, catalogue accompanying the exhibitions in Bremen, Berlin, and Darmstadt, Bremen 1998, p. 277, fig. 206; AD, February 2008, pp. 78-84.
Detailfoto
29.05.2008 - 01:00
- Realized price: **
-
EUR 13,720.-
- Estimate:
-
EUR 10,000.- to EUR 15,000.-
<b>An armchair,</b> for the Paula Modersohn-Becker House,
Bernhard Hoetger, Germany, c. 1927, natural wood, woven rush, height 70.5 cm, width 53 cm, depth 60 cm. (DR) This chair formed part of the furnishings of the Paula Modersohn-Becker House in Böttcherstraße in Bremen, an architectural highlight of Expressionist German architecture.The house was conceived by the sculptor Bernhard Hoetger in the form of a gesamtkunstwerk and was part of the unified architectural setting of Böttcherstraße, including restaurants, elegant clubs, workshops, and a museum to house the collection of the initiator and sponsor of the entire complex, the Bremen-based entrepreneur Ludwig Roselin. Roselin was the owner of the Kaffee HAAG company and an admirer of the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. Provenance: Böttcherstraße Art Collections, Bremen; Galerie Klaus Gramse, Cologne. Literature: M. Anczykowski, Bernhard Hoetger. Skulptur Malerei Design Architektur, catalogue accompanying the exhibitions in Bremen, Berlin, and Darmstadt, Bremen 1998, p. 277, fig. 206; AD, February 2008, pp. 78-84.
Detailfoto
|
Buyers hotline
Mon.-Fri.: 10.00am - 5.00pm
kundendienst@dorotheum.at +43 1 515 60 200 |
| Auction: | Design |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 29.05.2008 - 01:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 22.05. - 29.05.2008 |
** Purchase price incl. buyer's premium and VAT(Country of delivery: Austria)
It is not possible to turn in online buying orders anymore. The auction is in preparation or has been executed already.