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Fritz Koenig
Nächtlicher Ritt, 1986.
Bronze with black-brown patina
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 35,100 - 46,800
217
Fritz Koenig
Nächtlicher Ritt, 1986.
Bronze with black-brown patina
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 35,100 - 46,800
Fritz Koenig
1924 - 2017
Nächtlicher Ritt. 1986.
Bronze with black-brown patina.
Monogram engraved on the left heel. One of two bronze copies. Height: 47 cm (18.5 in). Base: 1,5 x 23 x 8 cm (0,5 x 9 x 3,1 in).
Three other copies were executed in iron. [EH].
• Fritz Koenig reduces the riding couple to an abstract, existential symbolic form.
• Horseback riding: a very personal motif for Fritz Koenig, who ran his own stud farm on near Landshut.
• In the 1980s, he constructed figures from reduced, sometimes split cylindrical forms.
• Bronzes by the artist from this period are in important collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany.
LITERATURE: Dietrich Clarenbach, Fritz Koenig. Skulpturen. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2003, CR no. 892 (illustrated on p. 892 (different copy).
Called up: June 13, 2026 - ca. 15.36 h +/- 20 min.
1924 - 2017
Nächtlicher Ritt. 1986.
Bronze with black-brown patina.
Monogram engraved on the left heel. One of two bronze copies. Height: 47 cm (18.5 in). Base: 1,5 x 23 x 8 cm (0,5 x 9 x 3,1 in).
Three other copies were executed in iron. [EH].
• Fritz Koenig reduces the riding couple to an abstract, existential symbolic form.
• Horseback riding: a very personal motif for Fritz Koenig, who ran his own stud farm on near Landshut.
• In the 1980s, he constructed figures from reduced, sometimes split cylindrical forms.
• Bronzes by the artist from this period are in important collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany.
LITERATURE: Dietrich Clarenbach, Fritz Koenig. Skulpturen. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2003, CR no. 892 (illustrated on p. 892 (different copy).
Called up: June 13, 2026 - ca. 15.36 h +/- 20 min.
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Fritz Koenig "Nächtlicher Ritt"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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