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Max Reinhardts mirror

Baden near Vienna 1873 – 1943 New York

Mirror, by a Berlin master carpenter. Circa 1780

Pinewood, carved, silvered, in places later gilded over, mirror glass. 191 × 73 cm (75 ¼ × 28 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Max Reinhardts mirror. Mirror, by a Berlin master carpenter. Circa 1780.

Estimate:

EUR 3,000

 

- 5,000

USD 3,200

 

- 5,340

Sold for:

6,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.06.2017

Information

Pinewood, carved, silvered, in places later gilded over, mirror glass. 191 × 73 cm (75 ¼ × 28 ¾ in.). On the reverse an adhesive label: Frankfurt Main (partly illegible) / Schloß Leopoldskron No 153 / Berge[...] Berlin.

Related literature: Max Lehrs: Gesammeltes. Freiburg, 1924 / Helene Thimig-Reinhardt: Wie Max Reinhardt lebte. … eine Handbreit über dem Boden. Percha am Lake Starnberg, 1973 / Berta Zuckerkandl: Österreich intim. Erinnerungen 1892 bis 1942, ed. Reinhard Federmann. Vienna, 2013. Note: an adhesive label on the mirror refers to the transport company "Bergemann & Co", active in Berlin and Hamburg until 1939, and which specialised in intercontinental transport.

Collection of the actor Max Reinhardt Berlin, Magnus-Haus (approx. 1911-21), then Schloss Leopoldskron near Salzburg (from 1918), then the gardner's house at Schloss Bellevue, Berlin (1927-33) / 1960s Kunsthandel Wenzel, Bamberg / private collection, Lower Saxony