Ten Ducks
Alexander Koester (Bergneustadt 1864 - München 1932)
Lot-No. 150
Proceeds : 41.600 €
Possibly before 1905, oil/canvas, 79,5 x 130,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. A. Koester, on the stretcher inscribed 'Enten Herbststimmung'. - Literature: Cf.: Cat. rais. Stein 593 and 594 with the same surroundings. - Provenance: Private collection Hamburg. - One of the most famous German animal painters. K. studied at the Karlsruhe academy among others by L. von Kalckreuth and later settled in Klausen in Tyrol. His works were shown on major exhibitions, in Munich, Berlin a. St. Louis he was awarded gold medals. After the outbreak of World War I he settled in Dießen by the Ammersee, but also made trips to Lake Constance to study the effects of large water expanses. Mus.: Munich (Neue Pinakothek), Chemnitz, Graz, Breslau, Bucharest a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit, Stein/Koester: A.K., Leben und Werk, 1988.
Alexander Koester: Ten Ducks
Alexander Koester (Bergneustadt 1864 - München 1932)
Ten Ducks
Lot-No. 150
Proceeds : 41.600 €
Possibly before 1905, oil/canvas, 79,5 x 130,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. A. Koester, on the stretcher inscribed 'Enten Herbststimmung'. - Literature: Cf.: Cat. rais. Stein 593 and 594 with the same surroundings. - Provenance: Private collection Hamburg. - One of the most famous German animal painters. K. studied at the Karlsruhe academy among others by L. von Kalckreuth and later settled in Klausen in Tyrol. His works were shown on major exhibitions, in Munich, Berlin a. St. Louis he was awarded gold medals. After the outbreak of World War I he settled in Dießen by the Ammersee, but also made trips to Lake Constance to study the effects of large water expanses. Mus.: Munich (Neue Pinakothek), Chemnitz, Graz, Breslau, Bucharest a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit, Stein/Koester: A.K., Leben und Werk, 1988.
