Carl August Walther

Notre Dame de Paris

1911

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Ruined houses in San Gimignano, crumbling brick buildings, 20th century, Charcoal Technique: White heightened Charcoal and Chalk o...

Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Pine trees on a slope, c. 1890, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Date: c. 1890 Keywords: Landscape, Nature, Hill, Slope, Trees, nature...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Italian city with bridge arch, 20th century, Charcoal Technique: Charcoal over Pencil on Paper Inscription: lower left with estat...

Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): The Cypresses of Michelangelo in Rome, 1895, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Inscription: Inscribed and dated by the artist himself: "...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): The shore of the Devil's Lake, 1907, Charcoal Technique: Charcoal on Paper Inscription: Inscribed, dated and monogrammed lower le...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Wooded landscape, 20th century, Charcoal Technique: Charcoal over Pencil on Paper Inscription: monogrammed lower right, estate st...

Four outrigger proa’s on the beach of Kusambe, Bali, 1937 Signed with initials, dated and described with location bottom left Pencil and ink on paper, 29.7 x 35 cm In ebonized frame with white mount WILLEM OTTO WIJNAND NIEUWENKAMP (1874-1950) Nieuwenkamp was born on July 27th 1874 in Amsterdam. His father owned sailing ships sailing to Indonesia and hearing the stories of the returning captains evoked in the young Nieuwenkamp an obsession for distant lands and adventure. After a failed attempt by his father to have his son make a career in his business, Nieuwenkamp attended the Academy for Decorative Art in Amsterdam. However, he left within one year to go his own way. He was an autodidact and a great experimenter with new techniques, particularly in the art of etching. Nieuwenkamp was a very focused man with the discipline of a scientist tempered by the sensitivity of an artist, a lust for adventure, a natural appreciation for ethnic arts and an enormous ambition to tread new paths. In 1898 he visited Indonesia for the first time and on his second visit in 1903-1904 he went on to Bali and became the first foreign artist to love Bali and the Balinese with a passion. Having secured agreements with several museums in the Netherlands to obtain Balinese art and objects for their collections, Nieuwenkamp immediately started to purchase and order a wide range of ethnographic art and objects from local artists and craftsmen. Through his drawings and books, he gave an excellent impression of Balinese art and culture at that time. Since 1854 Northern Bali was under Dutch...

Premises in North Bali, 1906 Signed with initials and titled bottom left and fully signed, bottom right Pencil and ink on paper, 10.5 x 18 cm Black ebonized frame with white mount ...

Part of the ring-wall of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1914 Signed with initials and dated bottom right Black chalk on paper, 45.5 x 53 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbro...

Weltevreden, Kebon Sirih, & Vlucht voor de bui (Fleeing the rain) Executed between February 20 and March 2, 1918 Double sided drawing in graphite pencil on paper Images: c. 33 x 5...

Statue of Vishnu Garuda, Bali, 1904 Signed with initials Pencil and ink on paper, 21.4 x 21.3 cm Literature: Bruce W. Carpenter, W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp. First European Artist in Bali,...

Incoming rain, Den Pasar, Bali 1937 Signed with initials, dated and titled, bottom right Black chalk and ink on paper, 42 by 46 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W.O...