Sale: 600 / Evening Sale, Dec. 05. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125001283
Lot 125001283 
125001283
Hermann Max Pechstein
Hütten, 1909.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 350,000 - 450,000
$ 409,500 - 526,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Hermann Max Pechstein
1881 - 1955
Hütten. 1909.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower right. Inscribed "Hütten 300 [Mark] / Pechstein / Berlin Wilm. / Durlacher Str.14" on the reverse. 49.5 x 65 cm (19.4 x 25.5 in). [JS].
• Nida 1909: Pechtein found his ‘painter’s paradise’ in the peaceful fishing village on the Curonian Spit.
• Radically modern aesthetics: a brilliant synthesis of free brushwork, sharp focus, reduced forms, and expressive colors.
• Part of a private collection in southern Germany for over 30 years.
• Paintings from this first stay in Nida are in international collections, including the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Hilti Art Foundation, Schaan/Liechtenstein, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin (around 1914/15).
Private collection, Berlin / Baden-Württemberg (1940-1993: Grisebach, Berlin).
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1993).
LITERATURE: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. The Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. 1: 1905-1918, Munich 2011, CR no. 1909/15.
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Grisebach Berlin, Ausgewählte Werke, November 26, 1993, cat. no. 15 (illustrated).
Wolfgang Gurlitt Archive, image file no. fm131647, ca. 1914/15, https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20498927.
"[..] the sale of a painting to Walther Rathenau provided me with sufficient funds to devote an entire summer to my painting without having to take on any additional work, enabling me to work in Nida on the then uncharted Curonian Spit! All by myself, in a still intact unity of man and nature. Later that fall, I returned to Berlin with a rich harvest. In the future, Nida, with its drifting dunes, its lagoon, and the narrow strip of forest leading to the Baltic Sea, became my painter's paradise."
Max Pechtstein, quoted from: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein, Munich 2011, vol. 1, p. 31.
1881 - 1955
Hütten. 1909.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower right. Inscribed "Hütten 300 [Mark] / Pechstein / Berlin Wilm. / Durlacher Str.14" on the reverse. 49.5 x 65 cm (19.4 x 25.5 in). [JS].
• Nida 1909: Pechtein found his ‘painter’s paradise’ in the peaceful fishing village on the Curonian Spit.
• Radically modern aesthetics: a brilliant synthesis of free brushwork, sharp focus, reduced forms, and expressive colors.
• Part of a private collection in southern Germany for over 30 years.
• Paintings from this first stay in Nida are in international collections, including the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Hilti Art Foundation, Schaan/Liechtenstein, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin (around 1914/15).
Private collection, Berlin / Baden-Württemberg (1940-1993: Grisebach, Berlin).
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1993).
LITERATURE: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. The Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. 1: 1905-1918, Munich 2011, CR no. 1909/15.
- -
Grisebach Berlin, Ausgewählte Werke, November 26, 1993, cat. no. 15 (illustrated).
Wolfgang Gurlitt Archive, image file no. fm131647, ca. 1914/15, https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20498927.
"[..] the sale of a painting to Walther Rathenau provided me with sufficient funds to devote an entire summer to my painting without having to take on any additional work, enabling me to work in Nida on the then uncharted Curonian Spit! All by myself, in a still intact unity of man and nature. Later that fall, I returned to Berlin with a rich harvest. In the future, Nida, with its drifting dunes, its lagoon, and the narrow strip of forest leading to the Baltic Sea, became my painter's paradise."
Max Pechtstein, quoted from: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein, Munich 2011, vol. 1, p. 31.
125001283
Hermann Max Pechstein
Hütten, 1909.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 350,000 - 450,000
$ 409,500 - 526,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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