Lempertz · Lot 158
Der Liebesbrief
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Der Liebesbrief
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-03-14
Published result : 1860 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 2000
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Karl Hübner
Carl Wilhelm Hübner (1814–1879), born in Königsberg and active in Düsseldorf, studied under Carl Ferdinand Sohn and Wilhelm von Schadow. His genre paintings stage social conflicts and relationships of power. The Silesian Weavers contrasts workers’ distress with their employers’ prosperity, giving narrative form to the tensions of his time.
The Deutsches Historisches Museum holds an 1846 version in oil on canvas of a subject Hübner first addressed in 1844 in the context of the weavers’ revolt. In The Unexpected Return, held by the Dr. Axe Foundation, confrontation becomes a family matter: a young sailor faces his father’s anger. Figures positioned close to the picture’s front edge form a theatrical scene whose outcome remains unresolved.
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Lempertz · Dobiaschofsky
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Lempertz · Lot 129
Moselkern
Öl auf Papier, auf Karton
Auction date : 2017-09-20
Published result : 744 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 600
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Die Aufwartung.
Oil on hardboard.
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Die Aufwartung.
Öl auf Htf.
Date to be documented
Published result : 12000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 14000
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