Auction 288: Old Masters & 19th Century Art | 10 May 2019
Fidus (Hugo Höppener)

For Nietzsche (“Für Nietzsche”)

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Lot 270
Fidus (Hugo Höppener)
1868 Lübeck – Berlin 1948
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Pencil on firm cardboard. 1898. 16.6 x 11.5 cm. Signed and dated lower left, inscribed lower right.

Result: € 7,500*

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Provenienz:
Privatbesitz, Berlin.

Description

Bei dem “Für Nietzsche” bezeichneten Blatt handelt es sich sicher um einen Illustrationsentwurf für eine Veröffentlichung über Nietzsche, möglicherweise für einen Einband. 1898 war Fidus in Berlin auch als Buch-Illustrator tätig, u. a. für Vertreter des sogenannten “Friedrichshagener-Dichter-Kreises”. – Teilweise auf die Unterlage montiert, vereinzelt winzige Braunfleckchen, ansonsten gut erhalten.

Period

19th century

Technique

Works on paper

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