Caspar David Friedrich
Greifswald 1774 – 1840 Dresden
”Ruine des Klosters Altzella in Nossen bei Dresden, 20. September 1800”. 1800
Pencil on wove paper (watermark: J[osef] S[iegfried] 1796). 20,7 × 23,7 cm. (8 ⅛ × 9 ⅜ in.) Dated in the lower centre: den 20 t Sept. 1800. Recto and verso on the upper right hardly ledgible page numbering by another hand in pencil: 15 resp. 16. On the reverse at the lower right with the collector's mark Lugt 1306 b (in black): H F [in a circle]. Catalogue raisonné: Grummt 229. Upper part of a sheet from the so-called large Mannheimer sketchbook. On the reverse an only faintly visible study of a tree in pencil. [3096] Framed
ProvenanceEstate of the artist (until ca. 1916) / Hugo Fleischhauer, Stuttgart (died 1930) / Private Collection, Mannheim (1991) / Feilchenfeldt, Zurich / Private Collection, Southern Germany / Galerie Siegfried Billesberger, Moosinning (until 2002) / Private Collection, Austria (2002 acquired at Villa Grisebach) / Kunstsalon Franke-Schenk, Munich (?) / Private Collection, Saxony
Addendum/ErratumThe sketchbook is requested as a loan for the exhibition: Caspar David Friedrich. Wo alles begann. Dresden State Art Collections, Kupferstich-Kabinett and Albertinum, 24.8.2024-5.1.2025
EUR 120.000 – 150.000
USD 129,000 – 161,000
ExhibitionHistorien- und Landschaftsbilder aus fünf Jahrhunderten. Galerie Dr. Schenk, Zurich, and Kunstsalon Franke, Munich, Delbrück & Co., 2002, cat. no. 15
Literature and IllustrationHans Dickel (ed.): Caspar David Friedrich in seiner Zeit, Zeichnungen der Romantik und des Biedermeier (= Manfred Fath, publ.: Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Kunsthalle Mannheim, vol. 3). Weinheim, VCH Acta humaniora, 1991, p. 69 (no. 11, IV) and p. 71-72., (no. 13, note 3 and 4) / Stock catalogue: Deutsche Zeichnungen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Moosinning/Munich, Galerie Siegfried Billesberger, 1999, cat. no. 14 / Auction no. 101: 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Berlin, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 8.6.2002, cat. no. 104, w. illus.
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