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19th Century Art

5 June 2025
2 PM
  • Grisebach
  • Berlin
  • Fasanenstraße 27
  • 10719 Berlin

About the auction

We are fascinated by the modernity and vitality of the 19th century.

Our focus is on the art of Romanticism. This season, we are delighted to present a remarkable Dresden private collection with works by Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus and Johan Christian Dahl: Masterpieces of Romanticism.

In addition, we focus on the freshness and immediacy of oil studies that sharpen the eye for modernity, with wonderful works by Rottmann, Isabey, Gudin, Gurlitt and many others.

Mostly created in oil on paper in nature, they complement our outstanding selection of master drawings: from Friedrich to Gericault (rare study for the ‘Raft of the Medusa’), from Delacroix to Dillis (clouds on blue laid paper), from Millet to Menzel, Vuillard and Liebermann, which enter into a stimulating dialogue with extremely rare old master designs by Pontormo, Koninck and Perino des Vaga.

Rediscoveries such as the early portrait of Queen Louise by Friedrich Georg Weitsch are always a source of great pleasure. We contrast these with the individual, often symbolist expressions of the fin-de-siècle, whose quality and pictorial inventions are hardly surprising, from the Dresden circle with Sascha Schneider and Max Pietschmann, whose studio we cordially invite you to explore.

Our selection would like to welcome you to an exciting journey of discovery through the worlds of art on the way to modernity, to broaden your view, to be inspired by extraordinary achievements and – as the Humboldt Brothers and Goethe so urgently recommended – to bring art into life in order to enrich life itself.

Selected Highlights

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19th Century Art

Caspar David Friedrich

Gothic brick buildings and small tree studies. 1809. Watercolour over pencil on paper 30,9 × 25,3 cm.
EUR 200,000 - 300,000
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19th Century Art

Carl Gustav Carus

”Ruine in Pillnitz über den Weinbergen”. Circa 1835. Oil on cardboard 13,5 × 19,5 cm.
EUR 50,000 - 70,000
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19th Century Art

Christian Friedrich Gille

Tree study. Circa 1835/40. Oil on paper, on masonite 29,5 × 22 cm.
EUR 8,000 - 12,000
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19th Century Art

Carl Gustav Carus

”Elbinsel bei Mondschein”. Circa 1844. Oil on cardboard 17,8 × 25,4 cm.
EUR 150,000 - 200,000
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19th Century Art

Carl Gustav Carus

Moon over pines. Oil on paper, on cardboard 11,4 × 7,9 cm.
EUR 25,000 - 35,000
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19th Century Art

Carl Gustav Carus

”Mondschein hinter Burgruine mit Erker”. Oil on paper, on wood 10,4 × 6,9 cm.
EUR 25,000 - 35,000
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19th Century Art

Carl Gustav Carus

Ship mill on the Elbe near Dresden. Circa 1826. Oil on canvas 21,5 × 29 cm.
EUR 140,000 - 160,000
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19th Century Art

Johann Georg von Dillis

Cloud study. Presumably circa 1815/29. White chalk on blue laid paper (watermark: ILO) 22 × 35 cm.
EUR 25,000 - 35,000
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19th Century Art

Friedrich Georg Weitsch

Portrait of Queen Louise of Prussia. 1799. Oil on canvas. Relined 84 × 63 cm.
EUR 30,000 - 40,000
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19th Century Art

Jakob Philipp Hackert

”Pflanzenstudie”. 1777. Brush in brown over pencil on laid paper, on washed cardboard 33,8 × 45,9 cm.
EUR 15,000 - 20,000
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19th Century Art

Édouard Vuillard

”La Berge du Pouliguen” (the shore of Le Pouliguen). 1908. Mixed media on paper, on canvas 91,5 × 107 cm.
EUR 30,000 - 40,000
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19th Century Art

Jean François Millet

Study of a kneeling and a reclining figure. Charcoal on pale-blue laid paper 19 × 23 cm.
EUR 35,000 - 45,000
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19th Century Art

Adolph Menzel

Hans Karl von Winterfeldt, Prussian lieutenant-general (study of a Frederician officer). 1851. Black chalk, heightened with white, on brown paper 29,1 × 21,1 cm.
EUR 10,000 - 15,000
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19th Century Art

Caspar David Friedrich

”Kirche von Lyngby” (Lyngby Church). Circa 1795/1797. Pen and brown ink, washed, on laid paper (watermark trimmed) 16,4 × 20,5 cm.
EUR 70,000 - 90,000
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19th Century Art

Théodore Géricault

”Cadavre de jeune homme” (body of a young man). Pencil on wove paper 18,8 × 26,2 cm.
EUR 25,000 - 35,000
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19th Century Art

Caspar David Friedrich

”Ruinendurchblick”. Circa 1798. Pencil and black chalk on laid paper (watermark: J Honig & Zoonen) 34,4 × 22,4 cm.
EUR 50,000 - 70,000
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19th Century Art

Carl Rottmann

”Thermen in der Campagna” (Roman Baths in the Campagna). Presumably 1826/27. Oil on paper, on canvas 19,6 × 22,1 cm.
EUR 18,000 - 24,000
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19th Century Art

Sascha Schneider

Cherub. 1922. Oil on canvas 107 × 48,5 cm.
EUR 15,000 - 20,000
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19th Century Art

Max Pietschmann

Study on Polyphemus' fishing haul. Circa 1891. Oil on canvas 109,5 × 71,8 cm.
EUR 6,000 - 8,000