Eduard Gaertner

Das Brandenburger Tor (The Brandenburg Gate)

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December 9, 02:51 PM GMT

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2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a German Private Collection

Eduard Gaertner

German

1801-1877 - 1877

Das Brandenburger Tor (The Brandenburg Gate)

signed E. Gaertner lower right on the mount, titled on the mount

watercolour, pencil, and pen and ink on paper

composition: 9 by 9cm., 3½ by 3½in. (arched top); sight size: 12 by 12cm., 4¾ by 4¾in.

framed: 19 by 19.5cm., 7½ by 7¾in.

Axel Springer, Berlin
Purchased from the above by the present owner

Irmgard Wirth, Eduard Gaertner: der Berliner Architekturmaler, Frankfurt, 1979, no. 205, p. 248, pl. 64, illustrated

Lots 42-71: Thirty Watercolour Views of Berlin by Eduard Gaertner from a German Private Collection

Executed after 1832. According to Irmgard Wirth, these watercolour views of Berlin were originally kept in a leather bound booklet, and were subsequently used to produce similar sized coloured etchings entitled Memories of Berlin. Thirty-Six Coloured Etchings by Eduard Gaertner published by Gropius after 1832 and before 1840. These etchings were unsigned. Based on this collection of etchings it appears that the original watercolours made by Gaertner for Gropius to produce this series included the following views: Das Diorama, Das Monument auf dem Kreuzberg, Das Museum, Die neue Wilhelmstrasse, Das Akademiegebäude.