A rare Bernhard Hoetger hardwood chair - image-1

Lot 363 D

A rare Bernhard Hoetger hardwood chair

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
12.11.2020, 19:00 - Modern Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €

A rare Bernhard Hoetger hardwood chair

Red painted hardwood with cane upholstery. Unusual three-legged chair with narrow back, carrying handle, and two stretchers between each leg. Losses to the polychromy, previous insect damage. H 73, W 47.5, depth of seat 35 cm.
C. 1924.

Provenance

Haus Hoetger in Worpswede, later Osthaus.
The circle of friends of Karl Ernst Osthaus.

Literature

Cf. cat. Bernhard Hoetger. Skulptur. Malerei. Design. Architektur, Bremen 1998, p. 274, illus. 203.
A further example exhibited in the Kunstsammlung Museen Böttcherstraße, Bremen.