Sale: 606 / Evening Sale, June 12. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000028
Raumbeispiel
126000028
Hermann Max Pechstein
Ostsee, 1922.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 250,000 - 350,000
$ 287,500 - 402,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000028
Hermann Max Pechstein
Ostsee, 1922.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 250,000 - 350,000
$ 287,500 - 402,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Hermann Max Pechstein
1881 - 1955
Ostsee. 1922.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed (in ligature) and dated in the lower left. 63 x 78 cm (24.8 x 30.7 in).
• A rare, tumultuous, and expressive Baltic Sea landscape of museum quality.
• The artist’s troubled state of mind at the time of the painting’s creation in 1922 is reflected in its subject matter: his separation from his wife Lotte and conflicts with his art dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt.
• The sea and maritime subjects are inextricably linked to Pechstein’s oeuvre and characterize his entire expressionist work.
• Part of a Swiss private collection for nearly 40 years.
• Pechstein’s paintings from the early 1920s are at, among others, the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.
PROVENANCE: Art dealer F. A. C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main (since at least 1966).
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired in 1988, Sotheby's, Munich).
LITERATURE: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. 2: 1919–1954, Munich 2011, CR no. 1922/15 (illustrated)
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Weinmüller, Munich Art Auction House Rudolf Neumeister, Munich, 102nd Auction, Modern Art, Oct. 28, 1966, lot 498 (illustrated in color on plate 8).
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 607. Auction, 20th Century Art, June 4–5, 1985, Lot 693 (titled “Hafeneinfahrt von Leba,” illustrated in color on plate 8).
Sotheby’s, Munich, 20th Century German Art, June 8, 1988, lot 7 (illustrated in color).
1881 - 1955
Ostsee. 1922.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed (in ligature) and dated in the lower left. 63 x 78 cm (24.8 x 30.7 in).
• A rare, tumultuous, and expressive Baltic Sea landscape of museum quality.
• The artist’s troubled state of mind at the time of the painting’s creation in 1922 is reflected in its subject matter: his separation from his wife Lotte and conflicts with his art dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt.
• The sea and maritime subjects are inextricably linked to Pechstein’s oeuvre and characterize his entire expressionist work.
• Part of a Swiss private collection for nearly 40 years.
• Pechstein’s paintings from the early 1920s are at, among others, the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.
PROVENANCE: Art dealer F. A. C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main (since at least 1966).
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired in 1988, Sotheby's, Munich).
LITERATURE: Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. 2: 1919–1954, Munich 2011, CR no. 1922/15 (illustrated)
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Weinmüller, Munich Art Auction House Rudolf Neumeister, Munich, 102nd Auction, Modern Art, Oct. 28, 1966, lot 498 (illustrated in color on plate 8).
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 607. Auction, 20th Century Art, June 4–5, 1985, Lot 693 (titled “Hafeneinfahrt von Leba,” illustrated in color on plate 8).
Sotheby’s, Munich, 20th Century German Art, June 8, 1988, lot 7 (illustrated in color).
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