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Wilhelm Wagenfeld

Bremen 1900 – 1990 Stuttgart

„Tischlampe aus Glas“ - model: MT 9 (preliminary work by Carl Jacob Jucker). 1923/24 / execution 1924

Crystal glass, glass tube with melted in blue thread; brass, steel, nickel-plated; porcelain; original wiring – manufacturer: Metallwerkstatt des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar. 37,5 cm; Ø 17 cm (14 ¾ in.; Ø 6 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Wilhelm Wagenfeld. „Tischlampe aus Glas“ - model: MT 9 (preliminary work by Carl Jacob Jucker). 1923/24 / execution 1924.

Estimate:

EUR 100,000

 

- 150,000

USD 112,000

 

- 169,000

Sold for:

106,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions Spring 2019

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Information

Crystal glass, glass tube with melted in blue thread; brass, steel, nickel-plated; porcelain; original wiring – manufacturer: Metallwerkstatt des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar. 37,5 cm; Ø 17 cm (14 ¾ in.; Ø 6 ¾ in.). Etched in on glass tube: Felsenglas.

A second (or identical) copy of the Wagenfeld-Tischlampe is depicted on interior photographs by Ferdinand Kramer from the 1920s (and catalogue of Warenhaus Oberzenner Frankfurt am Main: Siedlungsmöbel ... nach Entwürfen von Dipl.-Ing. F. Kramer, 1925 and Kramer's catalogue Typenmöbel für Hausrat GmbH, 1925).

We would like to thank Magdalena Droste, Berlin, for kindly providing additional information..

Private Collection, Hanover (until the early 1990s) / art dealership, Hanover / Stefan Züchner, Hanover (until 1996) / Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne (from 1996) / Alexander von Vegesack (2004) / Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne (until 2006) / Private Collection, northern Germany

Kunst, Technik und Design - das bauhaus. Exhibition to mark the 28th Kunst- und Antiquitäten-Messe Hannover-Herrenhausen. Hanover, 1996

Magdalena Droste: Die Bauhaus-Leuchte von Carl Jacob Jucker und Wilhelm Wagenfeld. Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ill. p. 18 and p. 25 (described as being part of the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin) / auction: Masterworks from the Collection of Alexander von Vegesack. New York, Phillips de Pury & Company, 8.12.2005, cat. no. 70

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