Carl Wuttke - View of Tsingtau - image-1

Lot 2419 Dα

Carl Wuttke - View of Tsingtau

Auction 1231 - overview Cologne
18.11.2023, 14:30 - Old Masters and 19th Century, Part II
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.520 € (incl. premium)
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Carl Wuttke

View of Tsingtau

Oil on panel. 13.5 x 20.5 cm.
Signed lower left: C. Wuttke, inscribed lower right: Tsingtau.

Tsingtau (Qingdao) was the capital of the Kiautschou region on the Chinese east coast, which was leased from the Empire of China to the German Empire in 1898 and was intended to serve as a naval base and trading port. In the same year, Prince Heinrich of Prussia, a brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II, commissioned Wuttke to create a large-format view of the Bay of Kiautschou.
The numbers on the back of this and the previous painting suggest that these two works were parts of a cycle, probably of views of China.