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Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Neuruppin 1781 – 1841 Berlin

Schinkel standard frame with a steel engraving of the honouring of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV at the Berlin City Palace, 1844. Circa 1844

Pine, silvered, lacquered in gold; lead, gilt. Corner palmettes after Schinkel's design for Peter Christian Wilhelm Beuth / etching with aquatint by Friedrich Wilhelm Schwechten executed after the painting by Franz Krüger. 128,5 x 101,5 cm (50 ⅝ x 40 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Schinkel standard frame with a steel engraving of the honouring of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV at the Berlin City Palace, 1844. Circa 1844.

Estimate:

EUR 7,000

 

- 9,000

USD 8,870

 

- 11,410

Sold for:

6,875 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 229-235

ORANGERIE. Selected Objects, Thursday, 27.11.2014

Information

Pine, silvered, lacquered in gold; lead, gilt. Corner palmettes after Schinkel's design for Peter Christian Wilhelm Beuth / etching with aquatint by Friedrich Wilhelm Schwechten executed after the painting by Franz Krüger. 128,5 x 101,5 cm (50 ⅝ x 40 in.). On the frame fragments of an old label: Aus... Goldrahmen-Goldlei...einpapp.

Related literature: Bettina von Roenne: Schinkel rahmt. Die Bilderrahmen Karl Friedrich Schinkels, Dissertation, Berlin 2011, p. 296f.

Regarding Schinckel's design for the palmettes: Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, inv. no. SM 43a.88.

Circa 1844 presumably as royal gift to State Minister Carl von Savigny (1779-1861), Berlin, Schloß Trages / thence by descent to the present owner, Schloßgut Trages / until 1998 collection Baron Leo von Savigny, Heidelberg / 2008 private collection, Munich

Auction catalogue: Nachlaßversteigerung Baron Leo von Savigny, Bernd Rieber, Stuttgart, March 1998, lot no. 4280 / Sabine Spindler: Bilderrahmen des Klassizismus und der Romantik 1780-1850, Munich 2007, cat. no. 39, p. 59f

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