African, Asian, Oceanic and pre-Columbian Art

16. November 2024 - Select pieces from Private Art Collections

Auction in Würzburg:
Saturday, 16 November 2024 – 2 pm (CET)

Preview:
From November 13 to 15 - from 10 am to 5 pm
And by appointment

The items offered cover a wide range, with an exciting selection of works in which we go from realism to idealism to abstraction. Works that remain stylistically committed to the traditional canon, but at the same time are characterized by an almost refreshing and fascinating artistic independence.  

We are looking forward to the particularly passionate art collections of Susanne and Erwin Melchardt, a Viennese art critic for decades, cultural editor, professor and expert on non-European art at the Dorotheum and the Leopold Foundation, as well as the collection of Bruno Heimberg, former restorer of the Bavarian State Painting Collections and director of the Doerner Institute, Munich.  
Their names are closely linked to the art collector Rudolf Leopold and
the gallery owner Fred Jahn. 

More details to follow soon...

 

D. R. Congo, Songye, Collection Melchardt, Collection Rudolf Leopold

D. R. Congo, Songye

Provenance:
Rudolf Leopold, Vienna
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna

Greece, Cyclades, Collection Bruno Heimberg

Greece, Cyclades

Provenance:
Bruno Heimberg, Munich

Mali, Dogon, Collection Melchardt

Mali, Dogon

Provenance:
Julius Carlebach, New York
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna

Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik, Ramu River, Collection Alexander Kubetz

Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik, Ramu River

Provenance:
Alexander Kubetz, Munich

Marquesas Islands, Collection Alexander Kubetz

Marquesas Islands

Provenance:
Alexander Kubetz, Munich

Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland, Heinrich Hense

Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland

Provenance:
Heinrich Hense (*1888), Lippstadt, Germany
Family-owned since then