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Lot 1714 Dα

Nikolaus Gysis - The Crucifixion of Christ on Golgotha

Auction 1185 - overview Cologne
20.11.2021, 11:00 - Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture 14th - 19th C.
Estimate: 25.000 € - 30.000 €

Nikolaus Gysis

The Crucifixion of Christ on Golgotha

Oil on canvas. 81 x 131 cm.
Monogrammed lower right: NG.

The Greek painter Nikolaus Gysis studied at the Munich Academy from 1865, and was a master student of Karl Theodor von Piloty from 1868-1871. Our painting depicting the crucifixion of Christ on the hill Golgotha in the distance, illuminated by a ray of light, and a large crowd in the foreground, betrays Gysis´s characteristic colour palette and was probably executed around 1895, as the artist mentions drafts for a painting "Golgotha" in his notes for that year (Konstantinos Didaskalou: Genre- und allegorische Malerei von Nikolaus Gysis, Munich, p. 154).

Provenance

Rudolph Lepke´s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin (label on the stretcher). - Swedish private collction. - Auction Neumeister, Munich, 30.11.2011, lot 358. - North German private collection.