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Live Auction 2  –  6 July 2020

Lansky, Live Auction 2

Ancient and World Coins, Ancient Art, Paintings, Watches

Mo, 06.07.2020, from 3:00 PM CEST
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Rudolph Friederich Kurz (Bern 1818 - 1871 Bern). Animals fleeing a fire, October 1858. Oil on canvas. 110x75cm. Signed and dated lower right. From a European private collection; Galerie Bollag 1943 (27 November) lot 46

Kurz was a Swiss painter and writer who ventured to United States in order to paint and study the native Americans. He is mostly known on account of his journals, in which he presents an account of and an interesting commentary on life in the 19th century along the Mississippi and Missouri. He even married the daughter's leader of an Iowa Indian group but the marriage did not last. At the end of April 1852, he noted that "at this season of the year Indians set the prairie on fire in order to remove the old, dried grass and provide room for the young, tender growth... All animals, both domestic and wild, flee in terror from the smoke and flame of a prairie fire".

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