Dec 15, 2010 - Sale 2234

Sale 2234 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CARL SCHNEBEL (1874-1974) DIE GARTENLAUBE, Circa 1905.
31 1/4x21 1/4 inches, 79 1/2x54 cm. Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin.
Condition B+ / A-: restored loss in upper right corner; minor abrasions at edges and in image; unobtrusive horizontal folds.
Die Gartenlaube (the Arbor) magazine referred to itself as "the favorite of German families." The image is an exquisite depiction of Berlin's upper-class lifestyle. The elegant and well-dressed couple is strolling through a perfectly manicured garden in an enviable vision of bourgeois existence. DFP-III 2952.