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Lot 71 Dα

Eduard von Grützner - Scene from Goethe's Faust

Auction 1262 - overview Berlin
26.10.2024, 11:00 - Romanticism and Realism. Vedutas, Landscapes and Genre Paintings from a Private Collection
Estimate: 20.000 € - 25.000 €
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Eduard von Grützner

Scene from Goethe's Faust

Oil on canvas (relined). 75 x 100 cm.
Monogrammed and dated lower centre: E. Grützner 1897.

This picture is also known under the title '“Erictis sicut Deus” - “You will be like God”' - the sentence written by Mephistopheles in the register of the uncertain student in part one of Goethe's Faust.

Provenance

Fleischmann auction house, Munich September 1901, no. 17 (with illustration). - Nagel, Stuttgart 5.12.2002, lot 656. - Acquired there.

Literature

Heinrich Rottenburg: Eduard Grützner, In; Die Kunst unserer Zeit, vol. 1898, p. 50 (with illustration). - Fritz von Ostini: Grützner, In; Künstlermonographien vol. LVII, 1902, pp. 75-76, ill. 39. - Richard Braungard: Eduard Grützner, 1916, p. 29, ill. plate 18. - Lászlo Balogh: Eduard von Grützner 1846 - 1925, Ein Münchner Maler der Gründerzeit, 1991, p. 127. p. 237, no. 659.