TODAY’S AUCTION

Design and art from the Schellmann Collection on December 3, 2024

Jörg Schellmann is an institution in Munich. He opened his first gallery (Kunstladen) in 1969. From the very beginning, he was passionate about publishing limited editions of prints, objects and installations in order to make the works of internationally renowned artists accessible to a wider audience. Schellmann has worked with Joseph Beuys, Christo, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol and many others. Schellmann emerged as a furniture designer in 2009. His designs are characterized by minimalism and the influence of industrial furniture. Numerous prototypes designed by Jörg Schellmann as well as furniture from small series will be auctioned at Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen. This offering will be complemented by prints from limited editions by internationally sought-after artists such as Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd and Daniel Buren.

Highlight Auction ‘Schools of Design’ on December 3, 2024

At the end of the year, we are presenting around 300 objects from the history of design. These include important designs by Ron Arad, Kengo Kuma, Philippe Starck, Gerrit Rietveld, Jean Prouvé and Ettore Sottsass. You can look forward to furniture and objects from the Bauhaus period, anthroposophical design, as well as design and art from three top-class private collections. These include numerous designs by Enzo Mari for Danese from the collection of Mieke and Jan Teunen. Among the highlights of the offer stand out vase objects and photographs from the collection of the important design photographer Tom Vack.

Jugendstil – Art Déco am 4. Dezember 2024 – Rarities by Emile Gallé, Carlo Bugatti, Josef Hoffmann and Rudolf Schlichter

As always, glass dominates the offering, led by a rare teardrop-shaped vase by Emile Gallé depicting a pair of delicate snowdrops in a snowy landscape. The rare piece from 1902-04, with entirely wheel-cut decoration, will be called for a limit of 10,000 EURO.

In the furniture section, a rare console table by Carlo Bugatti stands out this time. The model on four jointed legs with two tiers and carved and inlaid decorations in his typical Moorish style was presented at the First International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts in Turin in 1902. For EUR 25-28,000, it should arouse the interest of collectors.

Rudolf Schlichter

‘Eugenie Perrot’, 1934

The portrait shows a middle-aged lady with her dark hair tied back, neatly dressed in a red and white checked blouse and adorned with detailed accessories, sitting in a green patterned wing chair. With her upper body leaning relaxed against the furniture and her hands calmly placed on top of each other, she looks directly at the viewer, although her face is slightly to her right. The direct gaze from the portrait subject to the viewer is a typical means of representation of New Objectivity, an art movement that developed in the 1920s as a realistic and socially critical response to Expressionism and the post-war period.  

Rudolf Schlichter was one of the most important representatives of the style and his portraits in that syle were known for their precise richness of detail and at the same time conveyed an intense psychological depth that reflected the inner turmoil and unease of the Weimar Republic. His distanced, almost dissecting style of representation made him one of the most prominent portrait painters of the New Objectivity, who depicted the inner life of his figures with a blunt clarity.

Oil on canvas. 70.5 x 50.5 cm (canvas), 79.5 x 59.5 cm (frame). Signed lower right: R. Schlichter and dated: (19)34 (oil).

€ 18.000 – 25.000

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It’s going to be glamorous! Jewelry and author jewelry on December 5, 2024 with works by Claude Lalanne.

The range of author’s jewelry leaves nothing to be desired for connoisseurs. The wide selection also offers newcomers a good opportunity to immerse themselves in the subject. Giampaolo Babetto, Manfred Bischoff, David Bielander, Helen Britton, Peter Chang, Georg Dobler, Hermann Jünger, Gerd Rothmann, Robert Smit, Annamaria Zanella.

Claude Lalanne’s works are delicate, almost poetic, yet expressive. In the field of jewelry, sculptor and designer found a unique form of expression that continues to captivate collectors to this day. Necklaces, bracelets, and brooches appear to grow fantastically from the body—a symbiosis of human and nature. We are delighted to offer three pieces in this auction, which also appear on the cover of the catalog