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From Caspar David Friedrich to Ernst Wilhelm Nay – The Walter Bauer Collection

27 November 2025
2 PM
  • Grisebach
  • Berlin
  • Fasanenstraße 27
  • 10719 Berlin

About the Auction

The collection that is part of the Walter Bauer estate and has remained hidden from the public for decades. It comprises a curated selection of 120 paintings, sculptures, watercolours and drawings, woodcuts, etchings and lithographs – two centuries of German art spanning the Classicism and Expressionism eras up to the post-war period with a total median estimate of EUR 3 million. 

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Selected Highlights

The Walter Bauer Collection

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

”Große Fehmarnküste”. 1913. Oil on canvas 90 × 121 cm.
EUR 200,000 - 300,000

The Walter Bauer Collection

Käthe Kollwitz

”Stehende Arbeiterfrau”. 1908. Charcoal on light green laid paper 65,6 × 43,7 cm.
EUR 40,000 - 60,000

The Walter Bauer Collection

Caspar David Friedrich

”Landschaft mit Felsgipfel”. Circa 1799. Pen and black ink, washed, and pencil on buff-coloured wove paper (watermark: W Elgar 1796) 18,3 × 26,9 cm.
EUR 80,000 - 120,000

The Walter Bauer Collection

Adrian Zingg

Wooded area with small pond. Pen and black ink, washed, on paper 42,3 × 32,1 cm.
EUR 2,500 - 3,500

The Walter Bauer Collection

Edvard Munch

”Selbstporträt”. 1895. Lithograph on China paper 45,7 × 31,7 cm.
EUR 40,000 - 60,000

The Walter Bauer Collection

Paula Modersohn-Becker

”Selbstbildnis nach halblinks”. 1906. Oil tempera on paper on cardboard 26,8 × 21,2 cm.
EUR 250,000 - 350,000

The Walter Bauer Collection

Ernst Wilhelm Nay

”Ohne Titel”. 1961. Watercolour on slightly textured paper 43 × 60,2 cm.
EUR 30,000 - 40,000

The Walter Bauer Collection

Franz Johann Heinrich Nadorp

Self-portrait in Rome. Circa 1830. Pencil and watercolour on heavy paper (watermark: [JWha]tman) 17,2 × 12,8 cm.
EUR 10,000 - 15,000