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Walter Leistikow

Bydgoszcz 1865 – 1908 Berlin

”Feldarbeit”. Circa 1890

Watercolour, heightened with opaque white, on paper on cardboard. 33,2 × 49 cm (13 ⅛ × 19 ¼ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Walter Leistikow. ”Feldarbeit”. Circa 1890.

Estimate:

EUR 4,000

 

- 6,000

USD 4,710

 

- 7,060

Sold for:

4,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2020

Modern Art, Friday, 04.12.2020

Information

Watercolour, heightened with opaque white, on paper on cardboard. 33,2 × 49 cm (13 ⅛ × 19 ¼ in.). Signed and inscribed lower right: WLeistikow Wörmlitz. On the reverse signed, inscribed and titled with brush in brown: Walter Leistikow Berlin W. Queen-Augusta Str. 51 „Feldarbeit“. Framed

Wörmlitz, today a district of the city of Halle (Saale), is meant. There, the artist frequently visited the befriended couple Huth around 1885/90. We would like to thank Dr. Sabine Meister, Berlin, for this information.

International art exhibition, organised by the Verein Berlin Künstler on the occasion of its fiftieth annivesary 1841–1891. In the national exhinition building, Berlin, 1891, cat. no. 1390 / III. Internationale Ausstellung von Aquarellen, Pastellen, Handzeichnungen and Radierungen. Dresden, in the Königl. Techn. Hochschule am Bismarckplatz, 1892, cat. no. 1005

Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. 4 volumes. Third, unaltered reprint, Hofheim am Taunus, H. Schmidt & C. Günther, 1979 (former Fr. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891–1901), here first volume (second half), p. 867, (watercolours and pastels) no. 8

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