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Christoph Heinrich Kniep
Sizilianische Küste bei Taormina, 1787.
Pen and ink drawing, with wash
Estimate:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,140 Sold:
€ 5,334 / $ 5,707 (incl. surcharge)
Sizilianische Küste bei Taormina. 1787.
Pen and ink drawing, with wash.
On laid paper (with truncated watermark "Crowned lilly", and "C & I Hon[..]" below). 40.3 x 55 cm (15.8 x 21.6 in), the full sheet.
PROVENANCE: Presumably Joachim Gustav Heinrich Winckler Collection (born in 1822), Hamburg/London (with the collector's stamp in bottom left, Lugt 2702).
Private collection Southern Germany (presumably acquired in 1979).
LITERATURE: Karl & Faber Munich, 150th auction, November 28, 1979, lot 42 (offered as a Jacob Philipp Hackert).
Cf. Georg Striehl, Der Zeichner Christoph Heinrich Kniep (1755-1825). Landschaftsauffassung und Antikenrezeption, Hildesheim et al 1998, cat. no. 61 (black-and-white illu. 152).
Pen and ink drawing, with wash.
On laid paper (with truncated watermark "Crowned lilly", and "C & I Hon[..]" below). 40.3 x 55 cm (15.8 x 21.6 in), the full sheet.
PROVENANCE: Presumably Joachim Gustav Heinrich Winckler Collection (born in 1822), Hamburg/London (with the collector's stamp in bottom left, Lugt 2702).
Private collection Southern Germany (presumably acquired in 1979).
LITERATURE: Karl & Faber Munich, 150th auction, November 28, 1979, lot 42 (offered as a Jacob Philipp Hackert).
Cf. Georg Striehl, Der Zeichner Christoph Heinrich Kniep (1755-1825). Landschaftsauffassung und Antikenrezeption, Hildesheim et al 1998, cat. no. 61 (black-and-white illu. 152).
Christoph Heinrich Kniep's artistic career and his repertoire of motifs are closely linked to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his trip to Sicily in 1787. Thanks to a scholarship, he had been in Rome since 1781 and joined the circle around Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein and Jakob Philipp Hackert. Like them, he finally moved to Naples in 1785. Tischbein, who was unable to embark on the journey with Goethe, recommended him to Goethe as a landscape draftsman, who was ready to discover Sicily, which was still little far less explored artistically than the Roman Campagna, as the epitome of the Italian soul and the influence of ancient Greece. At the beginning of May, the two stayed in Taormina, where Kniep drew the coast and, above all, the ancient theater, as Goethe wrote in his travel diary. Following the trip to Sicily, Goethe helped Kniep to important commissions for large-format vedutas, which found their way into the Weimar Graphic Collections through, among others, duchess Anna Amalia. With more than 60 drawings, they house a large part of the sheets created during the time with Goethe on Sicily. [KT]
611
Christoph Heinrich Kniep
Sizilianische Küste bei Taormina, 1787.
Pen and ink drawing, with wash
Estimate:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,140 Sold:
€ 5,334 / $ 5,707 (incl. surcharge)