Paintings & Drawings

Ahlden Castle offers a wide and stylistic range of paintings, watercolors and drawings from the Renaissance to the present day. Among the Baroque paintings, noble portraits by Johann Georg Ziesenis (proceeds 100,000 euros) and the Tischbein family of painters stand out. One of the personalities of the Brueghel dynasty of painters was Pieter Brueghel the Younger, whose small tondo painting with a peasant motif was recently auctioned (proceeds 232,000 euros). The Flemish painter Frans Francken the Younger preferred to create mythological and biblical scenes, such as "The Adoration of the Magi."

(Proceeds 90,000 euros).

 

From the 19th century, works from the Munich, Düsseldorf and Berlin schools of painting will be auctioned, as well as from the entire European art world. The top results from German painters include a view of Capri by Oswald Achenbach (proceeds: 48,000 euros), a cabinet painting by Carl Spitzweg (proceeds: 56,000 euros), and a lion painting by Wilhelm Kuhnert (proceeds: 100,000 euros).

A landscape painting by the Dutch romantic artist Barend Cornelis Koekkoek achieved an internationally impressive result (proceeds: 325,000 euros). The result of a multi-figure family scene by the Italian realist Arturo Ricci was spectacular (proceeds: 462,000 euros).

Russian and Polish art of the late 19th century was represented by, among others, a small museum painting "The Cook" by Vladimir Egorovitch Makovsky from the Tsar's possession, which attracted tremendous interest (proceeds 187,000 euros), as well as the painting "A Merry Sleigh Ride" by Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski (proceeds 150,000 euros).

The range of motifs of German Impressionism around 1900 is reflected in works by Alexander Koester (proceeds: 48,000 euros), Max Liebermann (proceeds: 98,000 euros), Edward Cucuel (proceeds: 75,000 euros) and the Worpswede landscape painter Otto Modersohn (proceeds: 33,000 euros).

The focus of classical modernism in Germany is on works by the artist groups "Der Blaue Reiter" and "Die Brücke". Paula Modersohn-Becker went down in art history as a lone fighter, pioneer, founder and most important representative of early expressionism. In 1901, she painted a girl in a white summer dress and black hat in her painting "Child at a Tree Trunk", which came from her estate and has been exhibited several times since 1947 (proceeds 475,000 euros).
Flower watercolors by the North German expressionist Emil Nolde (proceeds 275,000 euros) and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (proceeds 65,000 euros) remain in demand. The watercolor "Beach View with Fishing Boats in Leba" (proceeds 85,000 euros) was created by the Brücke painter Hermann Max Pechstein. The spirit of optimism in German art before the First World War is symbolized by the colored pencil drawings "3 blonde girls" by August Macke (proceeds 32,000 euros) and the ink brush/gouache work "In the Café" by Gabriele Münter (proceeds 44,000 euros).

The artist group "Zero", which existed from 1958 to 1966 and included Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, revolutionized German art from the ground up after 1945 and continues to shape it to this day. With their concept of art and their works, they broke the traditional genres of painting and sculpture by often integrating the dynamics of the viewer in space as well as wind and light. Piene created one of his famous so-called "fire pictures" - "The sun travels" from 1966 (proceeds 250,000 euros). In 1967, Mack played with light and spatial effects in his metal relief object "Wind and Fire, Free Study in Heavenly Gardens" made of structured aluminum honeycomb surface on a polished, partially brushed and perforated stainless steel plate (proceeds 275,000 euros). Gotthard Graubner was no less radical and conceptual in his abstraction with his "Pillow Picture" ("Untitled") from the Ulbricht Collection, which he created in the same year. In the tradition of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, Graubner became one of the most important representatives of lyrical color field painting with his "Pillow Pictures" and "Color Space Bodies", combining painting with three-dimensional effects and having similar intentions to Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein (proceeds: 52,500 euros).