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Lot 3236 - A216 19th Century Paintings - Friday, 27. March 2026, 04.00 PM

CARL SPITZWEG

(1808 Munich 1885)
Study for a garden (The elderberry bush). Circa 1856–68.
Oil on paper.
23 × 23 cm.

Certificate:
Günther Roennefahrt, Berlin, 17 November 1958 (attached verso).

Provenance:
- Unknown private collection, received from the artist in the 1870s (verso with hand-written note).
- Auction Karl & Faber, Munich, 13–14 May 1955, lot 55.
- Auction Rosen, Berlin, 11–15 May 1959, lot 840 (as "Aufgang zum Gutshaus").
- Private collection, Hamburg.
- Private collection, Switzerland.

Literature:
- Günther Roennefahrt: Carl Spitzweg. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde, Ölstudien und Aquarelle, Munich 1960, p. 192, no. 546 (with ill.).
- Siegfried Wichmann: Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke - Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart 2002, p. 433, no. 1079 (with ill.).

Bei dieser charmanten Ölstudie mit Holunderbusch von Carl Spitzweg handelt es sich wohl um einen Blick auf den Garten des Hauses des Kunstsammlers Prof. Friedrich Julius Meder (1862–1945) in München.

CHF 2 500 / 3 500 | (€ 2 580 / 3 610)

Sold for CHF 17 500 (including buyer's premium)