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 3958:
Prof. Albert Schaefer-Ast, collection of drawings
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Sold for: €150
Start price:
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150
Buyer's Premium: 27%
VAT: 19%
On commission only
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
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Prof. Albert Schaefer-Ast, collection of drawings
Six graphite drawings, depicting Italian towns and a woodpile, each titled "St. Miniato", "Certosa de Val d'Ema", "On the hills of Florence Fiesole", "Settignano", " ... hl. Bruno a. d. Greve", "From the Torre del Sallo ... Florence", from a sketchbook, each dated 1936, partly with folding lines in the middle, five works signed in lead "Ast", mostly brown-stained, sheet dimensions max. c. 28 x 42 cm. Artist's info: also Albert-Schäfer-Ast, German draughtsman and caricaturist (1890 Barmen to 1951 Weimar), apprenticeship as sculptor, 1906-11 studied at the Düsseldorf school of arts and crafts, worked for various magazines, took part in the 1st World War, was banned by the National Socialists as an artist. World War I, classified as degenerate by the National Socialists and partially banned from working and exhibiting, active again under restrictions from the mid-1930s, lost his flat in a bombing raid on Berlin in 1943, moved to Prerow on the Darß, worked again as a caricaturist for the Ulenspiegel from 1946, appointed professor at the State College of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar, Source: Vollmer, Eisold "Künstler in der DDR" and Wikipedia.
