Auction 110 - Tag 3
Fine Art, Ceramics, Metalware & Sculptures
By Auktionshaus Mehlis
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May 27, 2023
Hammerstraße 30, 8523 Plauen, Germany
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This is session 3 of 3 of our 110th auction
featuring over 1300 items in the categories fine art, ceramics, metalware, sculptures and more! Please visit our webpage to find the current session schedule with the respective categories and further information.
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LOT 3781:
Friedrich Iwan, "Grenzbauden"
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Sold for: €220
Start price:
€
100
Buyer's Premium: 27%
VAT: 19%
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Friedrich Iwan, "Grenzbauden"
View of the deep snow-covered winter landscape of the Krkonoše Mountains with a view past border buildings to the summit of the Schneekoppe, Friedrich Iwan, born in Landeshut, Lower Silesia, created a lasting monument to his Silesian homeland, especially to the Krkonoše Mountains, with his finely rendered atmospheric winter landscapes, already during his lifetime the artist was affectionately praised as "Snow Iwan" because of his excellently captured winter atmospheres, colour etching on paper, mid-20th century. century, signed by hand "Iwan" below the image on the right, titled on the reverse, framed behind glass, plate dimensions 26 x 29 cm. Artist's info: called "Schnee-Iwan", Germ. Painter, graphic artist and ex-libris artist (1889 Landeshut in Lower Silesia to 1967 Wangen in Allgäu), studied 1903-08 at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Breslau with Carl Ernst Morgenstern and 1910-14 at the Berlin Academy of Arts, member of the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands and the Freie Vereinigung der Graphiker zu Berlin, active first in Krummhübel, later in Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge, after 1946 in Wangen, source: Vollmer and Dressler.
