Walter Leistikow

DescEN Leistikow, Walter 1865 Bromberg - 1908 Schlachtensee The Ancient Ruins. Signed lower left: W. Leistikow. Oil on canvas. 61,5 x 100,5cm. Framed. Provenance: Private collection, Rhineland. Auction Menna, Cologne, Auction Nr. 65, 1.6.1934, CatNr. 888. (The Art Loss Register has confirmed, this painting is not registered as stolen or missing. Furthermore, a property claim on the piece has not been made between 1933 and 1945.)

Walter Leistikow Bromberg 1865 – 1908 Berlin „ABHANG“ Crayon, heightened with white, on brown paper,mounted on cardboard by the artist. 35,5 x 50 cm (14 x 19 5/8 in.) Signed lower right: W. Leistikow. Signed,inscribed and titled in pencil on the reverse on the upper left ofthe cardboard: W. Leistikow Berlin „Abhang“.

Walter Leistikow Bromberg 1865 – 1908 Berlin AUFFLIEGENDE SCHWÄNE (before) 1897. Pastel on paper. 42,3 x 58,3 cm (16 5/8 x 23 in.) Signed lower right.WLeistikow. With a label ofthe 1897 Dresden exhibition on the reverse (see below). Probably mounted firmly on cardboard in themargin by the artist.

Signed lower right: W. Leistikow. On the reverse at the right upper stretcher a label of the gallery Paul Cassirer, inscribed in pen in brown: Leistikow Kirche in den Bergen. The originally slightly larger painting trimmed by the artist, slightly reworked (amongst others he added the birds) and signed again. EUR 12.000 – 15.000 US $ 16,300 – 20,400 Provenance: Estate of the artist / Paul Cassirer, Berlin (in commission for the heirs W. Leistikows) / Kunsthandlung Eduard Schulte, Berlin (acquired at Paul Cassirer the 11.11.1908) / Private Collection, Eastern Germany Exhibitions Walter Leistikow, Katalog der Ausstellung des Nachlasses. Berlin, Paul Cassirer, 1908, Kat.-Nr. 18 Literature and Illustration Julius Elias: Walter Leistikow. In: Die Kunst, 1902/03, Siebenter Band (= Die Kunst für Alle, XVIII. Jg., H. 15, 1.5.1903), S. 347 – 351, hier ganzseitige Abb. S. 367, Foto S. 368 (Walter Leistikow in seinem Atelier, links auf der Staffelei das Gemälde in seiner ursprünglichen Größe) / Lovis Corinth: Das Leben Walter Leistikows. Ein Stück Berliner Kulturgeschichte. Berlin, Paul Cassirer, 1910, Foto S. 113 (Atelier nach dem Tode des Künstlers, hinten hängt, rechts von der Wendeltreppe, das Bild in den heutigen Maßen) Subject to change - Please refer to paragraph 9, no. 1 of our conditions of sale.

WALTER LEISTIKOW (1865-1908) [Untitled], from Pan etching and aquatint, 1897, on laid paper, signed in pencil and annotated '12', with the Pan blindstamp, with full margins, pale time staining, minor surface soiling and soft handling creases in the margins, otherwise in very good condition P. 6 7/8 x 9 1/8 in. (174 x 230 mm.) S. 19½ x 12 7/8 in. (494 x 326 mm.)