Lot 3004 - A205 Swiss Art - Friday, 23. June 2023, 02.00 PM
JOHANN JAKOB HEUSCHER
(Herisau 1843–1901 St. Gallen)
Bleicherei Saum, Herisau. 1887.
Mixed media on paper.
Signed, inscribed and dated lower left: J. Heuscher z. Brugg Herisau 1887.
28 × 46.3 cm (image).
Provenance:
Private collection, Appenzell.
Exhibited:
St. Gallen 1956, Appenzellische und Toggenburgische Bauern-Malerei, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 5.5.–24.6.1956, no. 121.
Literature:
Arthur and Ida Niggli: Appenzeller Bauernmalerei. Die naive Kunst der Appenzeller von 1850 bis heute, Teufen (AR) 1975, p. 60, no. 58 (ill.).
The work is registered at the Swiss Institute for Art Research under number SGV_06N_00036 as by Johann Jakob Heuscher.
This much-exhibited and much-published picture is an important work in the oeuvre of Johann Jakob Heuscher.
Our thanks to Roland Inauen, former director of the Appenzell museum for his assistance in cataloguing this work.
Private collection, Appenzell.
Exhibited:
St. Gallen 1956, Appenzellische und Toggenburgische Bauern-Malerei, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 5.5.–24.6.1956, no. 121.
Literature:
Arthur and Ida Niggli: Appenzeller Bauernmalerei. Die naive Kunst der Appenzeller von 1850 bis heute, Teufen (AR) 1975, p. 60, no. 58 (ill.).
The work is registered at the Swiss Institute for Art Research under number SGV_06N_00036 as by Johann Jakob Heuscher.
This much-exhibited and much-published picture is an important work in the oeuvre of Johann Jakob Heuscher.
Our thanks to Roland Inauen, former director of the Appenzell museum for his assistance in cataloguing this work.
CHF 20 000 / 30 000 | (€ 20 620 / 30 930)
Sold for CHF 33 240 (including buyer’s premium)
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