Michael Neher - St. Leonhard's Church in Frankfurt am Main - image-1

Lot 7 Dα

Michael Neher - St. Leonhard's Church in Frankfurt am Main

Auction 1262 - overview Berlin
26.10.2024, 11:00 - Romanticism and Realism. Vedutas, Landscapes and Genre Paintings from a Private Collection
Estimate: 80.000 € - 90.000 €
Bid

Michael Neher

St. Leonhard's Church in Frankfurt am Main

Oil on canvas. 47 x 58 cm.
Signed and dated upper centre: M. Neher 1855.

Titled and additionally inscribed and dated on the reverse: St.Leonhard´s Kirche in Fankfurt am Main.

The work will be included in the forthcoming Michael Neher catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Günter Meier.

Provenance

Probably acquired in 1856 at the ‘’Bremen Grosse Gemälde-Ausstellung‘’ by Consul J. G. Hoepken. - Donated by him to the Kunsthalle Bremen in 1870. - Kunsthalle Bremen until mid-1958, then exchanged for another painting by Michael Neher - Galerie J. P. Schneider, Frankfurt. - Auktionshaus Arnold, Frankfurt 21.11.2020, lot 480. - Acquired there.

Literature

Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1891-1901, unamended edition 1941, vol. II, p. 134, no. 43. - Catalogue of the Kunsthalle Bremen before 1958.