
Baltimore
Watercolour on paper
Original catalogue wording
Baltimore
Aquarell auf Papier
Auction date : 2021-11-20
Published result : 1062 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 1000
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Presented as a German landscape painter, Eduard Hildebrandt first apprenticed with his father, a house painter in Danzig, before settling in Berlin, where he trained under Wilhelm Krause, a marine painter. Around 1842, in Paris, he joined Eugène Isabey’s studio and came into contact with Lepoittevin. Works mentioned from his early period include a breakwater dated 1838 and boats off Swinemünde, dated 1840. A catalogue also describes a Rural Scene with Hay Cart, an oil on wood, signed and dated 1843 at lower right, measuring 22 × 33 cm.
After 1843, Hildebrandt extended his travels, which the source links to the influence of Alexander von Humboldt. It dates his round-the-world journey to 1864–1865. Over the course of his career, he gradually moved away from oil painting in favour of watercolour. Many of his sketches in this medium were disseminated through chromolithography.
This profile brings together identity references for Eduard Hildebrandt and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Lempertz
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Watercolour on paper
Baltimore
Aquarell auf Papier
Auction date : 2021-11-20
Published result : 1062 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 1000
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Aquarell auf Velin
Auction date : 2018-11-17
Published result : 1736 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 900
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Oil on canvas
Südliche Küstenansicht (Madeira?)
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-05-16
Published result : 9300 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Watercolour over pencil
Strandpartie mit heimkehrender Mutter und Kind.
Aquarell über Bleistift
Catalogue period : 2018-05-05
Published result : 380 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 300
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Oil on wood
Ländliche Szene mit Heuwagen.
Öl auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2018-05-04
Published result : 2000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000
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Watercolour
Baltimore
Aquarell
Auction date : 2016-05-21
Published result : 1240 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 800
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Strandpartie mit Möwen und Figurenstaffage.
Öl auf Lwd.
Date to be documented
Published result : 6000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 8000
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Oil on hardboard
Attribué à EDUARD HILDEBRANDT — Partie am Obersee mit Blick auf die Teufelshörner.
Öl auf Htf
zugeschrieben
Date to be documented
Attributed
Published result : 300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 700
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