OSTDEUTSCHE KUNSTAUKTIONEN

(East German Art Auctions)

65th Auction of Fine Art

 

Preview: 21 – 29 October 2025
Auction: 1 November 2025, from 1 p.m.
Post-auction viewing: 4 – 14 November 2025

Art Auction Catalogue

 

 

Porträt einer Dame, Hertha Günther (Dresden 1934 – 2018 Dresden),
Pastel, 1986, 44 × 60.5 cm, signed, dated. A large-format work reflecting the artist’s characteristic predilection for the sophisticated portrait

Maidemonstration 1948 (II), Paul Kuhfuss (Berlin 1883 – 1960 Berlin),
Mixed media (oil paints, gouache, watercolour, opaque white), 1958, 86.5 × 64.5 cm, signed, mounted on support board, there inscribed in handwriting: “Registered cultural property (of the GDR)”; attached label from the Paul Kuhfuss estate archive, typewritten: “May Demonstration, watercolour, exhibited: Pavillon der Kunst, Unter den Linden (East), December 1958/January 1959 (‘Peace Triumphs’). Calendar entry Paul Kuhfuss: 1948, 1 May: went to meet the May Day parade and made drawings. 1958, 21 September: exhibition watercolour for Pavillon der Kunst, 22 September: same, 24 September, 28 September: began watercolour ‘Demonstration Procession II’, completed 19 September.” Large-format, elaborately executed painting by the artist with fine structures. Very well preserved. A historical document that impressively demonstrates the painter’s full mastery.
WV Hellwich/Röske 58/9.

 

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“Where No One Knows Me”

Eduard Bigas about Walter Benjamin

 

22nd November – 30th January 2026

Eduard Bigas, „Seeds of collapse“, 31 x 41 cm, collage, watercolour and ink on paper, 2024