Stand 20.05.2025

Max Beckmann

Lot 137

Kleine Stadtansicht, 1917

Drypoint

15.8 x 20.9 cm

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Lot 137

Kleine Stadtansicht, 1917

Drypoint

15,8 x 20,9 cm

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€ 30.000 - 40.000

Auktion: heute

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

Ort: Munich

Auktion: 07.06.2025

Auktionsnummer: 591

Auktionsname: Day Sale

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Lot Details

Drypoint. Signed, dated and titled "Stadtansicht". One of to date three known copies. On Van Gelder Zonen wove paper (with a truncated watermark). 15.8 x 20.9 cm. Sheet: 28 x 36,5 cm.
- An extremely rare piece in Max Beckmann's graphic oeuvre - one of only three copies known to date. - Beckmann appears to be depicting the view from his studio of Frankfurt am Main Cathedral and the bridge “Eiserner Steg”. - The first exhibition of Beckmann's graphic works took place at I.B. Neumann in Berlin in 1917, the year this work was created.
LITERATURE: James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his prints, vol. 1, Bern 1990, cat. no. 119. Klaus Gallwitz, Max Beckmann. Die Druckgraphik, Karlsruhe 1962, cat. no. 92. - Probably: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, 15th auction, May 27-30, 1952, lot 1596. Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 224th auction, June 23, 2000, lot 13.

Max Beckmann Graphik, Graphisches Kabinett J.B. Neumann, Berlin, November 1917, cat. no. 109, illustrated (different copy)

Karin & Rüdiger Volhard Collection, Bad Homburg (since 2003: Kornfeld). Family-owned ever since

In good, print in fresh impression. With slight mount staining. Very few tiny brown spots.

Lot Details

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Ausstellungen

Max Beckmann Graphik, Graphisches Kabinett J.B. Neumann, Berlin, November 1917, cat. no. 109, illustrated (different copy)

Provenienz

Karin & Rüdiger Volhard Collection, Bad Homburg (since 2003: Kornfeld). Family-owned ever since

Zustand

In good, print in fresh impression. With slight mount staining. Very few tiny brown spots.