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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 7, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Day Sale | 196 | $****** - ****** | Enten am Teich |
paintings
54.5 x 82 cm (21.46 x 32.28 in)
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right
Private collection, Lower Saxony. Private collection, South Germany (acquired from the above in 2001, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, lot 16). Private collection, South Germany (acquired from the above in 2016, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, lot 97).
Gedächtnisausstellung des Kunstmalers Alexander Koester, Ständige Kunstausstellung der Münchener Kunstgenossenschaft, Maximilianstr. 26, Munich, 1933 (cat. no. 8849).
Ruth Stein, Alexander Koester. Leben und Werk, Recklinghausen 1988, catalogue raisonné no. 825. - - Kunstauktion Bantele, Munich, March 27, 1976, lot 518 (illustrated and illustrated in an ad in Weltkunst 4/1976, p. 170). Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 19th Century Pictures and Continental Watercolors:The Properties of Sir George Christie and from Various Sources, June 23, 1989, lot 134 (illustrated). Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 261, Dec. 1, 2001, lot 16 (illustrated). Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 431, May 25, 2016, lot 97 (illustrated). Called up: June 7, 2025 - ca. 16.08 h +/- 20 min.
Alexander Koester
Enten am Teich
1909.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right. 54.5 x 82 cm (21.4 x 32.2 in).
• Landscape painter Alexander Koester finally discovered the dominant theme of his oeuvre, atmospheric depictions of ducks, during a stay in Klausen in the Eisack Valley, a South Tyrolean artists" retreat, in 1896.
• With a free, impressionistic, broad, and loose application of the paint, Koester captured the fleeting moment of the animals frolicking in the water, the play of light and shadow on their plumage, and the reflections of the sunlight on the water"s surface.
• His works soon became popular and entered collections and museums. Emperor Wilhelm II and King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy acquired two duck paintings (1900 and 1907).
• In 1904, the artist was represented with three duck paintings at the World"s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, and was awarded a gold medal.
• Similar works can be found in, among others, the collections of the Neue Pinakothek, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, and the Belvedere in Vienna
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