Sale: 601 / Day Sale, Dec. 06. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125000327
Lot 125000327 
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125000327
Albert Weisgerber
Mann im Harem, 1907/08.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,400 - 35,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Albert Weisgerber
1878 - 1915
Mann im Harem. 1907/08.
Oil on canvas.
Dated “1908,” titled “Eunuch,” and inscribed with the dimensions on the reverse of the stretcher by the artist's hand. 87 x 100 cm (34.2 x 39.3 in).
Listed in the estate inventory of 1916. With illustration in the estate album, there with the note “March 1, 17. Kaufmann, Munich.”
Other works from the Max Niedermayer Collection, Limes-Verlag, Wiesbaden, will be offered in our current live and online auctions. [CH].
• In 1905 and 1906, Weisgerber lived in Paris for several months, where he was part of the Café du Dôme circle of artists.
• The strong influences of his stay in Paris led to a lighter palette and a tendency toward spatiality and decorative background design.
• The motif of the work offered here may have been inspired by Eugène Delacroix's painting “The Women of Algiers” (1834, Musée du Louvre), which Weisgerber may have seen in Paris.
• In 1913, Weisgerber was a founding member and president of the “Neue Münchner Secession” (New Munich Secession), whose members also included Alexej von Jawlensky and Paul Klee.
• His oeuvre, which ranges between Impressionism and Expressionism, came to an abrupt end with his early death in World War I in 1915.
The work will be included in the forthcoming updated catalogue raisonné. We are grateful to Mr. Erwin Rehn, Nauroth, for his kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Kaufmann Collection, Munich (according to the estate album, acquired from the estate on March 1, 1917).
Anna Charvátová Collection, Bestin-Hostomice (at least until 1962).
Prof. Wilhelm Weber Collection, Kaiserslautern (probably acquired from the above).
Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (acquired from the above in 1999).
Since then in family ownership.
EXHIBITION: Kunst aus Pfälzer Privatbesitz, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, May 10-June 21, 1970, cat. no. 150 (with full-page illu. in color).
LITERATURE: Saskia Ishikawa-Franke, Albert Weisgerber. Leben und Werk. Gemälde, Saarbrücken 1978, CR no. IF158 (illustrated).
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Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg (ed.), Albert Weisgerber. Commemorative exhibition at Heidelberg Castle (with an oeuvre catalog of paintings, edited by Wilhelm Weber), Heidelberg 1962, CR no. 111 (with the title “Eunuch in the Harem” and the note “Original verschollen” [original lost], illustrated in black and white, no. 23).
Wilhelm Weber, Ergänzungen zum Oeuvre-Verzeichnis der Gemälde von Albert Weisgerber, in: Saarbrücker Hefte, 1962, issue 16, p. 67 (titled “Eunuch im Harem”).
1878 - 1915
Mann im Harem. 1907/08.
Oil on canvas.
Dated “1908,” titled “Eunuch,” and inscribed with the dimensions on the reverse of the stretcher by the artist's hand. 87 x 100 cm (34.2 x 39.3 in).
Listed in the estate inventory of 1916. With illustration in the estate album, there with the note “March 1, 17. Kaufmann, Munich.”
Other works from the Max Niedermayer Collection, Limes-Verlag, Wiesbaden, will be offered in our current live and online auctions. [CH].
• In 1905 and 1906, Weisgerber lived in Paris for several months, where he was part of the Café du Dôme circle of artists.
• The strong influences of his stay in Paris led to a lighter palette and a tendency toward spatiality and decorative background design.
• The motif of the work offered here may have been inspired by Eugène Delacroix's painting “The Women of Algiers” (1834, Musée du Louvre), which Weisgerber may have seen in Paris.
• In 1913, Weisgerber was a founding member and president of the “Neue Münchner Secession” (New Munich Secession), whose members also included Alexej von Jawlensky and Paul Klee.
• His oeuvre, which ranges between Impressionism and Expressionism, came to an abrupt end with his early death in World War I in 1915.
The work will be included in the forthcoming updated catalogue raisonné. We are grateful to Mr. Erwin Rehn, Nauroth, for his kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Kaufmann Collection, Munich (according to the estate album, acquired from the estate on March 1, 1917).
Anna Charvátová Collection, Bestin-Hostomice (at least until 1962).
Prof. Wilhelm Weber Collection, Kaiserslautern (probably acquired from the above).
Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (acquired from the above in 1999).
Since then in family ownership.
EXHIBITION: Kunst aus Pfälzer Privatbesitz, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, May 10-June 21, 1970, cat. no. 150 (with full-page illu. in color).
LITERATURE: Saskia Ishikawa-Franke, Albert Weisgerber. Leben und Werk. Gemälde, Saarbrücken 1978, CR no. IF158 (illustrated).
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Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg (ed.), Albert Weisgerber. Commemorative exhibition at Heidelberg Castle (with an oeuvre catalog of paintings, edited by Wilhelm Weber), Heidelberg 1962, CR no. 111 (with the title “Eunuch in the Harem” and the note “Original verschollen” [original lost], illustrated in black and white, no. 23).
Wilhelm Weber, Ergänzungen zum Oeuvre-Verzeichnis der Gemälde von Albert Weisgerber, in: Saarbrücker Hefte, 1962, issue 16, p. 67 (titled “Eunuch im Harem”).
125000327
Albert Weisgerber
Mann im Harem, 1907/08.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,400 - 35,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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