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Hans Oskar Jancke (i.e. Royal Prussian Court Gardener)

Sanssouci 1850 – 1920 Potsdam

Orchid Studies. 1870–1906

Manuscript, bound, half leather binding ([text] 60 p. + 209 p. + 80(+1) p. + [coloured drawings] 76 p.) pen, India ink, watercolour and gouache over pencil / portfolio with 46 pages typescript [A. Cogniaux: Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidées, Brüssel 1896ff.], additions in pencil and 54 pages with coloured drawings, watercolour and gouache over pencil / portfolio with copy (9 sheet + 32 sheet + 32 sheet), red, green and black pen on tracing paper / portfolio with 30 pages of coloured drawings, watercolour and gouache over pencil. 4° / 4° / 4° / 4°.
This picture shows the following artwork: Hans Oskar Jancke (i.e. Royal Prussian Court Gardener). Orchid Studies. 1870–1906.

Estimate:

EUR 5,000

 

- 7,000

USD 6,850

 

- 9,590

Sold for:

10,625 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 222-228

ORANGERIE, Thursday, 29.05.2014

Information

Manuscript, bound, half leather binding ([text] 60 p. + 209 p. + 80(+1) p. + [coloured drawings] 76 p.) pen, India ink, watercolour and gouache over pencil / portfolio with 46 pages typescript [A. Cogniaux: Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidées, Brüssel 1896ff.], additions in pencil and 54 pages with coloured drawings, watercolour and gouache over pencil / portfolio with copy (9 sheet + 32 sheet + 32 sheet), red, green and black pen on tracing paper / portfolio with 30 pages of coloured drawings, watercolour and gouache over pencil. 4° / 4° / 4° / 4°. Orchideen., I. Theil; Sanssouci, im Winter 1871–71; H. Jancke / Notizen aus J. G. Beer’s „Praktischen Orchideenstudien“ [d.i. Praktische Studien an der Familie der Orchideen, Wien 1854]; Moabit, im August 1872; H Jancke / IV. Theil. Einiges über das Borsigsche Orchideenhaus; Moabit, 1872; Jancke.

Related literature: Preußisch grün – Vom königlichen Hofgärtner zum Gartendenkmalpfleger, exh. cat., Berlin 2004. We would like to thank Dr. Nils Köster, custodian of the Berlin Botanical Garden, for kindly providing additional information..

Estate Hans Oskar Jancke, Potsdam / until 1980s descendents of the family of the court gardener Jancke-Nietner, Potsdam / private collection, Munich

Auction catalogue: Leo Spik, Berlin, 20. Juni 1998, Los 463