
Ein Kritiker
Oil on wood
Original catalogue wording
Ein Kritiker
Öl auf Holz
Auction date : 2023-11-18
Published result : 403200 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 200000
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Wilhelm Leibl was a German painter and printmaker associated with realism. He trained at the Munich Academy, encountered Courbet’s painting and travelled to Paris in 1869. His move to the Bavarian countryside from 1873 encouraged close observation of local people and their everyday activities. This attention to his immediate surroundings shaped his work.
Three Women in Church, painted between 1878 and 1882 and held by the Hamburger Kunsthalle, represents three stages of life and different forms of devotion. Proximity to the models and precise detail organise the scene. On a different scale, Interior, dated about 1895–1900 in the Neue Pinakothek collection, is painted in oil on a small mahogany panel. Acquired in 1901, it demonstrates the place of domestic spaces in his later production.
This profile brings together identity references for Wilhelm Leibl and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Lempertz · Kornfeld · Ketterer · Dobiaschofsky
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Oil on wood
Ein Kritiker
Öl auf Holz
Auction date : 2023-11-18
Published result : 403200 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 200000
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Oil on canvas
Rothaariger Junge
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2023-05-20
Published result : 37800 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 25000
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Bildnis Frau Auguste Mayr
Öl auf Holz
Auction date : 2021-06-17
Published result : 68750 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 60000
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Bäuerin in Berbling
Bleistiftzeichnung
Catalogue period : 2019-06-13
Published result : 16000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 1750
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Umkreis - Brustbild eines Knaben
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2016-11-25
Published result : 5000 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 7000
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Oil on wood
Mädchenkopf - die sogenannte Malresl
Öl auf Holz
Auction date : 2016-05-21
Published result : 86800 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 40000
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Der Freund Sperl en face
Bleistiftzeichnung
Auction date : 2004-10-29
Published result : 3627 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 1100
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Oil on wood
In der Art
Öl auf Holz
Attribution ou qualification signalée dans le catalogue
Catalogue period : 2017-05-12
Attribution recorded in catalogue
Published result : 800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1200
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