GERMANY
Director: Dr. Martin Moeller-Pisani
Director: Dr. Martin Moeller-Pisani
Kunsthandel Dr. Moeller began operations in 1991 with an initial exhibition in Hamburg and the publication of a first catalogue of master drawings, extending from the sixteenth century in Italy up to Max Beckmann. In the following years, regular shows in Hamburg and guest exhibitions with C.G. Boerner in Düsseldorf and Wolfgang Werner in Berlin secured ties to a growing circle of drawing lovers throughout Germany. Art fairs in Hannover-Herrenhausen, Düsseldorf and Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin and Munich expanded this clientele and an international audience was reached through our own exhibitions in Brussels as well as in New York. With the first International Fine Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory we began our involvement in overseas fairs, which has culminated since 2005 in regular invitations to the Salon du dessin in Paris.
Important museum sales have gone among others to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Landesmuseum in Hannover, the Württembergisches Landesmuseum in Stuttgart, the Stiftung Klassik in Weimar and the Stiftung der Preussischen Schlösser und Gärten in Potsdam, to the Graphische in Munich as well as the prints and drawings collections of the State museums in Dresden and Berlin.
Among our museums clients in Europe are the Musée du Louvre in Paris and the Archives Municipales in Besançon, the National Gallery in Edinburgh, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg as well as the Casa di Goethe and the Vatican Museum in Rome. In the United States, we have sold drawings to the Art Institute of Chicago, the Achenbach Foundation in San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Museum, the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, as well as to the National Gallery in Washington.
Preuβisch Holland 1898 - 1993 Kalmar
Berlin, 1933
Gouache over black chalk, partly heightened with white, on strong paper
616 x 472 mm
Signed in Black on the upper right : Lotte Laserstein
Provenance
- A present from the artist to the Büge family, Berlin 1933
- Klaus Wolfgang Büge collection, Berlin (1924-2000)
- The Büge family by descent, Berlin (until 2022)
Literature
Catalogue raisonné par Anna Carola Krausse: Lotte Laserstein, Leben und Werk (sa vie et son œuvre), Berlin 2006, no M11933/14
The ca. 9 years old boy, portrayed here, was the son of the departemental head for the city development of Berlin in 1933.
Lotte Laserstein was a close friend of this family; she has been a regular guest in their elegant home in the Tiergarten district and they enjoyed sailing together on lake Wannsee.
Before leaving Berlin and Germany to escape from the rising Nazi-pressure, Lotte Laserstein gave this portrait as a present to the Büge family.
Dear visitors,
Due to the gravity of the international situation resulting from the spread of COVID-19 and in order to protect the health of all parties concerned, we have decided to cancel the 29th edition of the Salon du dessin.
France officially declared a state of health emergency on 24 March for two months and there are still numerous uncertainties regarding the evolution of the pandemic over the coming months. These factors make it impossible to reprogram the Salon before the summer of 2020 and the Salon du dessin, which usually attracts numerous other events in Paris for a week, will therefore not take place this year.
Louis de Bayser, President of the Salon du dessin said “this is a difficult decision to take with regard to all those who worked hard for this edition, but our priority is to protect the health of all our exhibitors, visitors and partners”.
We send our thoughts to all those affected by this epidemic and hope that this unprecedented health situation will quickly change favorably.
The organizers of the Fair