Adolf Loos, a three-part fireplace screen for the dining room of Friedrich Boskovits’s apartment, Vienna I, Bartensteingasse 9, probably executed by Friedrich Otto Schmidt
Adolf Loos, a three-part fireplace screen for the dining room of Friedrich Boskovits’s apartment, Vienna I, Bartensteingasse 9, probably executed by Friedrich Otto Schmidt
brass, metal; double-sided, one side partly with foliate decoration in relief; middle screen with two buttons on the front; all three screens with two curved paw feet at the bottom; signs of age and use, the screens partly bent and with small holes, a few nuts missing in the brackets on the frame; size: height: 90.5 cm, width of the side screens: each 30 cm, width of the middle screen: 44.2 cm. (MP)
Provenance:
The fireplace screen has always remained in the ownership of the same Viennese family.
Literature:
Mattl-Wurm, LoosRäume, Wien I., Bartensteingasse 9, p. 65 onwards. Cf. Christian Witt-Dörring, “Jeder sei sein eigener Dekorateur” - the furniture of the apartment of Friedrich Boskovits on Bartensteingasse, illustration of the fireplace screen in the dining room, ill. 71, p. 84; Adolf Loos, Wohnungen, p. 100; Rukschcio, Schachel, Adolf Loos, ill. 853-855; Ottillinger, Adolf Loos, ill. 42-44. Part of the furniture from the apartment of Friedrich Boskovits is now preserved in the Musiksammlung of the Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek.
Specialist: Dr. Magda Pfabigan, M.A.
Dr. Magda Pfabigan, M.A.
+43-1-515 60-383
magda.pfabigan@dorotheum.at
12.12.2018 - 16:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 9,000.- to EUR 15,000.-
Adolf Loos, a three-part fireplace screen for the dining room of Friedrich Boskovits’s apartment, Vienna I, Bartensteingasse 9, probably executed by Friedrich Otto Schmidt
brass, metal; double-sided, one side partly with foliate decoration in relief; middle screen with two buttons on the front; all three screens with two curved paw feet at the bottom; signs of age and use, the screens partly bent and with small holes, a few nuts missing in the brackets on the frame; size: height: 90.5 cm, width of the side screens: each 30 cm, width of the middle screen: 44.2 cm. (MP)
Provenance:
The fireplace screen has always remained in the ownership of the same Viennese family.
Literature:
Mattl-Wurm, LoosRäume, Wien I., Bartensteingasse 9, p. 65 onwards. Cf. Christian Witt-Dörring, “Jeder sei sein eigener Dekorateur” - the furniture of the apartment of Friedrich Boskovits on Bartensteingasse, illustration of the fireplace screen in the dining room, ill. 71, p. 84; Adolf Loos, Wohnungen, p. 100; Rukschcio, Schachel, Adolf Loos, ill. 853-855; Ottillinger, Adolf Loos, ill. 42-44. Part of the furniture from the apartment of Friedrich Boskovits is now preserved in the Musiksammlung of the Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek.
Specialist: Dr. Magda Pfabigan, M.A.
Dr. Magda Pfabigan, M.A.
+43-1-515 60-383
magda.pfabigan@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Jugendstil and 20th Century Arts and Crafts |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 12.12.2018 - 16:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 07.12. - 12.12.2018 |