Sale: 562 / 19th Century Art, Dec. 07. 2024 in Munich button next Lot 123

 

123
Fritz von Uhde
Gang nach Bethlehem (Schwerer Gang), Um 1890.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 21,240
Sold:
€ 21,590 / $ 25,476

(incl. surcharge)
Gang nach Bethlehem (Schwerer Gang). C. 1890.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower right. 117 x 128 cm (46 x 50.3 in).
On the decorative frame with metal plate “Prof. Fritz v. Uhde / Gang nach Bethlehem”.

• As one of the most successful and controversial artists of his time, Fritz von Uhde found a new pictorial language for traditional religious scenes.
• In this work, he creates heroic peasant figures in the style of the French realist Jean-François Millet.
• Uhde ingeniously combines realistic and idealistic elements and secular and spiritual motifs.
• A version of the motif was exhibited at Galerie Heinemann in Munich in 1890 and was acquired by the Bavarian State Painting Collections by Prince Regent Luitpold in the same year
.

PROVENANCE: Heinrich Glosemeyer Collection (1896-1969), Bremen.
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired in 1960, since then in family ownership).




123
Fritz von Uhde
Gang nach Bethlehem (Schwerer Gang), Um 1890.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 21,240
Sold:
€ 21,590 / $ 25,476

(incl. surcharge)

 


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