Antonie Volkmar. Italian with Both of Her Children - photo 1
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Antonie Volkmar. Italian with Both of Her Children

Lot 1130
21.11.2025 15:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerVAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH
Event locationGermany, Köln
Buyer Premium32%
ID 1493150
Lot 1130 | Antonie Volkmar. Italian with Both of Her Children
Estimate value
€ 3 000 – 4 000
VOLKMAR, ANTONIEBerlin 1827 - 1903


Title: Italian with Both of Her Children.
Date: 1866.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Mounting: Relined.
Measurement: In oval: 73.5 x 63cm.
Notation: Signed and dated right: "A. Volkmar / 1866".
Frame: Framed.
Literature:
F.v. Boetticher: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Dresden 1891-1901, Volume II.2, p. 946, here listed under no. 17 with the reference to "Sachse's Berliner Gemälde-Ausstellung 1867".

Provenance:
Private ownership, Germany.

The arriving autumn belongs, both at the Kunstpalast but also at VAN HAM to the female artists! Until 1st February 2026 the Museum in Düsseldorf showcases an exhibition on the topic "Künstlerinnen! Von Monjé bis Münter" ("Female Artists! From Monjé to Münter"). VAN HAM will perform as one of the sponsors of this exciting exhibition that presents more than 30 female artists.

Paintings of the artists represented in the collection such as magnificent stillives by Emilie Preyer are regularly part of the auctions at VAN HAM. Since 1996 VAN HAM has offered more than twenty paintings of the artist and sold for peak prices. No other art auction house in the world can look back on such a rate of success. Without exception, all results of the artist have a five-digit sum. VAN HAM has secured a stable and continuously growing price development this way and significantly has contributed to the artist's rising fame and esteem. Today the stilllife painter belongs to the most significant artistsof the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Works by female artists have fascinated art collectors for many years - with growing demand. We are delighted to offer nine works of selected German, Dutch and French female artists of the 19th century this autumn. The presented paintings unveil impressively how diverse and technically adept female artists in 19th and the early 20th century have worked.

With "Italian with Both of Her Children" by Antonie Volkmar a delicate figure painting is centred that directs the eye to a the private and the interpersonal. In her Berlin atelier, a space of artistic meeting, she recognised the talent of the young Max Liebermann in 1859 who visited her as a 12-year-old accompanied by his mother, who had Volkmar portray her. Her artistic significance was reflected in the international salon: as one of the few women she was represented with her main work "Farewell of the Wandererd" on the Paris World Expo in 1867.

In the painting of landscapes female artists have proven to be precise observers of nature. Elisabeth Büchsel, who enjoyed her education at the drawing school of the Vereins der Berliner Künstlerinnen under Conrad Fehr and Walter Leistikow as well as in the painting classes in Paris and Munich, orchestrates the frugal beauty of the island in the Baltic Sea in "Blooming Brooms in the Wind on Hiddensee". She was part of the Hiddensoer Künstlerinnenbund, an early association of female visual artists, that successfully fought against their discrimination in the art world.

Especially strongly represented are the stilllives - a genre in which many 19th century female artists proved their abilities and gained large recognition. Adriana Johanna Haanen, a Dutch painter, shines with "Stillife with Currants and Prunes" with her nuanced light direction and substantial accuracy. Likewise Amalie Kärcher showcases a virtuously composed abundance of classic stilllife elements with "Fruits and Flowers in a Silver Bowl", in which the significant Karlsruhe painter discloses her technical mastery.

Finally Emilie Preyer displays her whole spectrum of colour intensity and her attention to details in her "Fruit Stilllife". With utmost precision she composes prunes, grapes, an opened apricot, nuts and a small fly on a white table cloth - each elements appears almost palpable. Preyer, daughter of the famous stilllife painter Johann Wilhelm Preyer, tread her own artistic path ands successfully established herself at the art market.

This choice makes it clear that 19th century female artists definitely were no figures of the artistic margins in art history. They took their stand with great skills, independent style of painting and often aginst the social grain in the art scene. Our offer thus shall not only provide an insight into their artistic diversity, but shall also contribute to making female art traditions visible.

On the occasion of the important display at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf we are delighted to invite you to the event that will take place within the frame of the pre-inspection of the Fine Art Auction at VAN HAM on 13th November. Here, the general director Felix Krämer and the curator Kathrin DuBois, head of Collection Painting, together with Markus Eisenbeis enter an informative discourse about female artists of th 19th century.
Applied technique:Oil
Auction house category:Paintings 19th Century
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