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Herbert Böttger

Documented citizenships : Germany

Herbert Böttger, a German painter born in Krefeld in 1898 and deceased in Büderich in 1954, is documented through catalogued works and several exhibitions devoted to New Objectivity. The available data list his activity in Düsseldorf from 1925 to 1954, as well as in Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands.

Among the documented works is Sommerliche Landschaft mit blühenden Gräsern, an oil on canvas from 1936 measuring 44 × 38.7 cm. Monogrammed “HB” and dated “36”, it is listed as number 116 in Jacobs’s catalogue raisonné; its published provenance mentions the collection of Dr Herbert Jacobs in Meerbusch.

His name is included among the artists in Neue Sachlichkeit Neuer Realismus, presented at Galerie Dorothea Loehr in Frankfurt from August to October 1972. He is also listed in Umwelt 1920 – Das Bild der städtischen Umwelt in der Kunst der Neuen Sachlichkeit, at Kunsthalle Bremen in 1977, and later in Neue Sachlichkeit – magischer Realismus, at Kunsthalle Bielefeld from December 1990 to February 1991.

This profile brings together identity references for Herbert Böttger and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

10auction references

1auction house

10documented results with prices

Lempertz

References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.

Works recorded at auction

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Lempertz · Lot 187

Vorfrühling

Oil on canvas

Original catalogue wording

Vorfrühling
Öl auf Leinwand

Auction date : 2023-06-07

Published result : 14490 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 4000

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Lempertz · Lot 132

Blumenstillleben in Glasvase

Oil on artist’s board

Original catalogue wording

Blumenstillleben in Glasvase
Öl auf Malkarton

Auction date : 2022-12-03

Published result : 6930 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 4000

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Lempertz · Lot 133

Bullenkauf am Niederrhein

Oil on canvas

Original catalogue wording

Bullenkauf am Niederrhein
Öl auf Leinwand

Auction date : 2022-12-03

Published result : 12600 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 4000

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Oil on canvas, on cardboard

Original catalogue wording

Blumenstilleben
Öl auf Leinwand, auf Karton

Auction date : 2017-05-31

Published result : 16120 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 5000

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Sources and references

SwissArtGallery documentary note based on the cited sources. Titles, media and qualifications are provided in the profile language; the original catalogue wording remains available in each record.
Profile updated : 2026-10-20

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Works recorded at auction

Vorfrühling

Blumenstillleben in Glasvase

Bullenkauf am Niederrhein

Dröppelminna

Summer Landscape with Flowering Grasses

Erster Frühling (Zwei alte Bäume)

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Abendliche Landschaft

Nebliger Tag

Blumenstilleben

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