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Lesser Ury

Birnbaum/Poznań 1861 – 1931 Berlin

„Berlin bei Nacht“. 1889

Oil on panel. 29 x 16,9 cm (11 ⅜ x 6 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Lesser Ury. „Berlin bei Nacht“. 1889.

Estimate:

EUR 60,000

 

- 80,000

USD 81,800

 

- 109,000

Sold for:

101,150 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 159-163

Selected Works, Friday, 28.11.2008

Information

Oil on panel. 29 x 16,9 cm (11 ⅜ x 6 ⅝ in.). Signed lower left: L. Ury. On the reverse a label of the exhibition Potsdam 1921 (see below). Catalogue raisonné: With a certificate (in copy) by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin, dated 25th May 2008. – The painting will be included in the catalogue raisonné of paintings, pastels, gouaches and watercolours of Lesser Ury by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin (in preparation). Framed

Emil Rathenau, Berlin / Dr. Walther Rathenau, Berlin (until 1922) / Willi Schweig, Berlin (acquired in Berlin between 1955 and 1962; thence by descent to the present owner)

Katalog der Kunstausstellung Potsdamer Kunstsommer 1921. Potsdam, Orangerie, 1921, cat. no. 163 („Straßenbild“) / Lesser Ury. Katalog der 42. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession. Berlin 1922, cat. no. 53, with full-page illustration

Adolph Donath: Lesser Ury zu seinem 60. Geburtstage (7. November 1921). In: Der Kunstwanderer, 3. Vol., Oct. 1921, ill. p. 83 / Adolph Donath: Lesser Ury. Seine Stellung in der modernen deutschen Malerei. Berlin, Verlag Max Perl, 1921, full-page ill. 45 / P. J. [Patai József]: Lesser Ury. In: Multésjövö, 22nd Vol., November 1932, ill. p. 295 („Straße im Regen“) / Rom Landau: Der unbestechliche Minos, Kritik an der Zeitkunst. Hamburg, Harder Verlag, 1925, full-page ill. betw. p. 52 and p. 53 („Leipziger Straße“) / Doch das Zeugnis lebt fort. Der jüdische Beitrag zu unserem Leben. Berlin / Frankfurt a. M., Verlag Annedore Leber, 1965, full-page ill. p. 187 / exhibition catalogue: Lesser Ury, Zauber des Lichts. Berlin, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, 1995/96, p. 41 and p. 68, ann. 5 (mentioned)

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