97th Auction

Dutch Collection, Rotterdam

German Collection (acquired 1970 / 71)

Gert Stoll, Berchtesgaden, Germany Ahrends, Bad Godesberg, Germany

Sulaiman, Diane, New York City, USA

B.C. Holland (1922-1994) Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA Douglas Dawson Gallery, Chicago Arte Primitivo, New York, 29 July 2020, Lot 407 Private Collection, Chicago

Ketterer, Munich, 10. Dezember 1988, Lot 189

German Private Collection, Hamburg (coll. in situ 1959-1965) Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 June 2014, Lot 390 (part of convolute) French Collection

Jo de Buck, Brussels, Belgium

American Private Collection

Ludwig Bretschneider (1909-1987), Munich, Germany Ulrich Klever (1922-1990), St. Georgen, Germany (since 1980s) German Private Collection

Helmut & Marianne Zimmer, Zurich, Switzerland

Adolf Diehl (1870-1943), Oppenheim, Germany (coll. in situ, between 1907-12) Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany Diehl worked as Chief Representative of the Society for Northwest Cameroon. He collected hundreds of objects on commission for the Leipzig & Stuttgart Ethnographic Museum between 1907 and 1912.

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979), New York City, USA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 14 November 1980, Lot 200

Old British Collection (coll. in the 1960s / 70s)

French Collection

American Private Collection

Christie's, London, 4 July 1989, Lot 52 Paul W. Doll, Jr., Lake Toxaway, North Carolina, USA

Jack Faxon (1936-2020), Detroit / Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA

German Private Collection

Wolfgang & Vera Nerlich, Munich, Germany

French Private Collection

French Private Collection

Michel Gosse, Caen / Paris, France Yves & Ewa Develon, Paris, France

French Private Collection

German Private Collection

French Private Collection

Alain Dufour, Saint Maur, France

Helga Seidl (1928-2005), Austria / Africa Helga Seidl came from Upper Austria and studied medicine in Vienna after the second World War. She left Austria in the late 1950s and worked for several years as a doctor in Albert Schweitzer's jungle hospital in Lambaréné in Gabon, Central Africa. After her time in Lambaréné, she continued to work as a doctor and as a development aid worker in many other African countries, including Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. During this time she built up an extensive collection consisting of ethnographic objects, archaeological artefacts, minerals, fossils, as well as other curiosities. During occasional stays at home, she deposited parts of the collection with relatives in Vienna from the 1970s onwards. Most recently, she ran a small medical station in Mauritania on the border with Mali, where she tragically fell victim to a crime in 2005.

Michel Gaud, Saint Tropez, France

French Colonial Collection Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 22 March 2014, Lot 535 German Private Collection

French Private Collection

Old German Collection

American Collection

German Private Collection, Rüthen

French Collection

Old French Collection

Philippe Laeremans, Brussels, Belgium

probably James Willis, San Francisco, USA Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 12 May 2007, Lot 360

German Collection

Sid (1922-) & Gae (1928-) Berman, New York, USA Amyas Naegele, New York, USA Srdjan Sremac, The Hague, The Netherlands

Jean-Marc Desaive, Soumagne, Belgium Srdjan Sremac, The Hague, The Netherlands

Serge Diakonoff, Geneva, Switzerland

Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium

Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium (field collected) Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany Thomas Olbricht, Essen, Germany (1996)

Wolff, Strasbourg, France

Beaussant-Lefèvre, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 9 June 2004, Lot 48

Neumeister, Munich, 16. November 2006, Lot 241 Bettina Rübesam, Munich, Germany