Bidspirit auction | Konrad Immanuel Böhringer

Konrad Immanuel Böhringer - Konrad Immanuel Böhringer, Portrait of Berta Reucker / Portrait of Prof. Alfred Reucker. 1931.. Konrad Immanuel Böhringer 1863 Grimma – 1940 Dresden Alfred Reucker 1868 Ründeroth – 1958 Dresden Oil on canvas. Each signed and dated lower left ”K. I. Böhringer 1931”. Verso each extensively inscribed and provided with numerous estate stamps from the Reucker Archive. In high-quality ornamental frames in the style of Dresden gallery frames. Additional portraits from the Reucker estate: a) Portrait of Ernst Possart as Justinian (Theodora, Händel), photogravure by ”Dr. Eugen Albert heliogr.”, in a heavy, stained frame (95 x 75 cm). With an autograph dedication from the sitter to Alfred Reucker. b) Portrait of Ferdinand Raimund, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber, framed behind glass (43 x 35.5 cm). With an autograph dedication from the sitter to a friend. Verso on the frame another dedication to Reucker on the occasion of his 70th birthday. c) Portrait of Angelo Neumann, photogravure by Heuer & Geyer, Leipzig, framed behind glass (47 x 38.5 cm). With an autograph dedication from the sitter to Alfred Reucker 1902. d) Portrait of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, lithograph from two stones by Otto Baumberger, 1936, signed lower right, in a black frame (56.5 x 45 cm). as well as: e) Special print from ”Sächsische Neueste Nachrichten” 1956. Article about Dresden's opera and theater life during Reucker's time with a gloss and portrait of him. Framed behind glass (49 x 34 cm) Provenance: Estate of Prof. Alfred Reucker, Melanie Nage (housekeeper, sole heir) Spitzwegstraße, Dresden. The works have not been unframed. Frame with material losses. Dimensions: Each 80 x 61.5 cm, Frame: 88.5 x 70 cm. Konrad Immanuel Böhringer 1863 Grimma – 1940 Dresden After school, studied at the Royal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, student of Leon Pohle and Ferdinand Pauwels. Freelance further education in Munich, prompt return to Dresden. 1894 participation in academic art exhibition in Dresden. From 1900 portraits of the royal family, therefore received the title ”Royal Saxon Court Councilor”. Thereafter specialized in paintings of well-known historical and contemporary personalities. During the Nazi era, adapted to the ideology.