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Franz Xaver Seegen

1723 – Vienna – 1789

Academic Life Room Model. 1783

Limewood, carved. 163 cm (64 ⅛ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Franz Xaver Seegen. Academic Life Room Model. 1783.

Estimate:

EUR 100,000

 

- 150,000

USD 107,000

 

- 160,000

Sold for:

200,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.06.2017

Information

Limewood, carved. 163 cm (64 ⅛ in.). Signed and dated on the plinth: Xaverii Seegen 1783. Originally painted. The stone can be removed.

Related literature: Ignatz de Luca: Das gebildete Österreich. Ein Versuch. vol. 1, 2nd edition, Vienna, 1775, p. 352. / Maria Pötzl-Malinkova: Die Schule Georg Raphael Donners in der Slowakei. In: Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Galerie, vol. 17 (1973), no. 61, p. 77–189 / Barbara von der Heiden-Kopf (married name: Fielhauer): Beiträge zu Leben und Werk der Wiener Bildhauer Franz Xaver Seegen und Johannes Wagner. In: Barbara Balážová (ed.): Generationen, Interpretationen, Konfrontationen (Tagungsband). Bratislava, 2007, p. 127–139.

For kindly providing additional information we would like to thank Ingeborg Schemper, Art Historical Institute at the University of Vienna; Monika Knofler, former Director of the Graphics Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; and Barbara Fielhauer, Vienna..

Circa 1974 René Clemencic Collection, Vienna (acquired from Wolfgang Hofstetter, Vienna) / 2015 Shepherd Galleries, New York / private collection, USA

Georg Raphael Donner. Vienna, Galerie Belvedere, 1993, cat. no. 152, S. 548 (Ingeborg Schemper-Sparholz) / Wandlungen – Ereignis Skulptur. Die Sammlung Clemencic. Vienna, Galerie Belvedere, 2004, cat. no. 19, S. 259f. (Ingeborg Schemper-Sparholz) / Fifty Years. Five Works. New York, Shepherd Galleries, 2016, cat. no. 1, S. 8–15