African, Asian, Oceanic and pre-Columbian Art
16. November 2024 - Select pieces from Private Art Collections
Auction in Würzburg:
Saturday, 16 November 2024 – 2 pm (CET)
Preview:
From November 13 to 15 - from 10 am to 5 pm
And by appointment
The items offered cover a wide range, with an exciting selection of works in which we go from realism to idealism to abstraction. Works that remain stylistically committed to the traditional canon, but at the same time are characterized by an almost refreshing and fascinating artistic independence.
We are looking forward to the particularly passionate art collections of Susanne and Erwin Melchardt, a Viennese art critic for decades, cultural editor, professor and expert on non-European art at the Dorotheum and the Leopold Foundation, as well as the collection of Bruno Heimberg, former restorer of the Bavarian State Painting Collections and director of the Doerner Institute, Munich.
Their names are closely linked to the art collector Rudolf Leopold and
the gallery owner Fred Jahn.
More details to follow soon…
- D. R. Congo, Songye
Power figure "nkisi" / "nkishi"
ProvenanceRudolf Leopold, Vienna, Austria Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria - Europe-Antiques, Greece, Cyclades
Fragment of a female Cycladic idol
ProvenanceBruno Heimberg (1933-2023), Munich, Germany - Mali, Dogon
Standing female figure
ProvenanceJulius Carlebach, New York, USA (~1950) Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria - Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik, Ramu River
Standing male ancestor figure ‘kandimbong’
ProvenanceAlexander Kubetz (1946-2023), Munich, Germany - Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland
Helmet mask 'tatanua'
ProvenanceHeinrich Hense (1888 to mid-1960s), Altengeseke / Lippstadt, Germany (coll. in situ, before 1918) Family-owned since then Heinrich Hense was born in Altengeseke in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1888. Trained as a locksmith, he worked as a repairman for Heinrich Nordhaus, a bicycle, sewing machine and motor vehicle dealer in Münster, from 1907 to 1909. He then joined the Imperial Navy, where he travelled for long periods in Oceania and the South Seas. This is documented for the years 1911 and 1912 by dated letters on the letterhead of the shipping company “Norddeutscher Lloyd”. According to this, he travelled on the steamer “Prinz Ludwig” in 1911 and on the Reichspostdampfer “Königin Luise” in 1912.
