Auction 114 Part 3
Fine Art, Ceramics, Metalware & Sculptures
By Auktionshaus Mehlis
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May 25, 2024
Hammerstraße 30, 8523 Plauen, Germany
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LOT 4233:
Fritz Beckert, Street view Hellerau
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Sold for: €220
Price including buyer’s premium:
€
279.40
Start price:
€
180
Buyer's Premium: 27%
VAT: 19%
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Fritz Beckert, Street view Hellerau
View of the garden city of the Dresden suburb of Hellerau, mixed media (watercolour and gouache over pencil preparatory drawing) on paper, c. 1920, probably monogrammed "FB" concealed by the fold lower right, framing label "... Kelsterbach", framed behind glass, dimensions approx. 37.5 x 52 cm. Artist information: actually Karl Friedrich Beckert, German architect. Architectural and landscape painter (1877 Leipzig - 1962 Dresden), attended school in Plauen, 1894-96 studied at the Academy of Graphic Arts Leipzig, 1896-1900 further training at the Dresden Academy under Friedrich Preller the Younger, master student of Gotthard Kuehl, Graduated from the academy with a gold medal, 1902 founded the artists' group "Die Elbier", which merged into the "Dresdner Secession" in 1909, from 1901 regular summer sojourns in Franconia, study trips through Bavaria, Austria and Italy, 1905 attempt to found a painters' colony with Rudolf Poeschmann and R. Müller-Ehrenberg in Kirchberg/Jagst, from 1908 private lecturer and 1925-45 professor of architectural painting and drawing at the Technical University of Dresden, organised the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich from 1942-44, lost his studio and a large part of his life's work in the destruction of Dresden in 1945, member of the Dresden Monument Council, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, matriculation of the Dresden Academy, Wikipedia and AKL.
