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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

Hidden from the public for decades, Walter Bauer's collection from his estate represents a curated selection of 120 paintings, sculptures, watercolours and drawings, woodcuts, etchings and lithographs - two centuries of German draughtsmanship from Classicism to Expressionism to the post-war period with an average total estimate of 3 million euros. 

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Selected Highlights

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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

Käthe Kollwitz

“Stehende Arbeiterfrau“. 1908. Charcoal on light green laid paper. 65.6 × 43.7 cm. EUR 40,000–60,000

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

Adrian Zingg

Wooded area with small pond. Pen and black ink, washed, on paper. 42,3 × 32,1 cm. EUR 2.500–3.500

Edvard Munch

”Selbstporträt”. 1895. Lithograph on China paper. 45,7 × 31,7 cm. EUR 40.000–60.000

Oskar Schlemmer

"Freundesgruppe mit Tisch und Vase“. 1935. Pastel on heavy paper. 48.2 × 65.2 cm. EUR 120,000–150,000

Paula Modersohn-Becker

"Selbstbildnis nach halblinks". 1906. Oil tempera on paper, on cardboard. 26.8 × 21.2 cm. EUR 250,000–350,000

Ernst Wilhelm Nay

“Ohne Titel“. 1961. Watercolour on slightly textured paper. 43 × 60.2 cm. EUR 30,000–40,000

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