May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
RICHARD MÜLLER
(Tschirnitz 1874-1954 Dresden)
Study of the Hermann Monument.

Black chalk on wove paper, 1917. 172x146 mm; 6 3/4x5 3/4 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Hermanns Denkmal Teutoburger Wald" in pencil, lower center recto.

Ex-collection Shepherd Gallery, New York, with the label.

The Hermannsdenkmal (or Hermann Monument) was constructed between 1838 and 1875 in the Teutoburg Forest in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, to commemorate the Cherusci chief Arminius (or Hermann in German) and his victory over the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD.