TIECK, Friedrich - Lot 140

TIECK, Friedrich Notice des Sculptures antiques exposées dans le Musée royal Berlin, Royal Academy of Sciences, 1836 CATALOG OF ANTIQUE SCULPTURES IN BERLIN'S KÖNIGLICHES MUSEUM, NOW THE ALTES MUSEUM. BEAUTIFUL AND FINE GERMAN POST-ISSUE BINDING ORIGINAL EDITION In-12 (179 x 98mm) COLLATION: (1) f., VI-70 pp., (1) f. CONTEMPORARY GERMAN BINDING. Dark violet calf, cold-stamped decoration in the center of the boards, large gilded decoration, friezes and fillets framing, highly ornate long spine, blue paper endpapers, gilt edges. PROVENANCE : Maurice Burrus (bookplate; Paris, October 17, 2017, no. 82) First few leaves slightly foxed. Friedrich Tieck (1776-1851), brother of the poet Ludwig Tieck, attended the Berliner Bildhauerschule. He studied with sculptors Heinrich Bettkobber and Johann Gottfried Schadow. At the age of twenty-two, he went to Paris and worked in Jacques-Louis David's studio. Two years later, he was awarded the Second Prix de Rome at the École des Beaux-Arts. His reputation continued to grow, and he made friends with the Schlegel brothers, Friedrich Schelling and Alexander von Humboldt, among others. Tieck finally became professor of sculpture at the Berlin Academy in 1820. The collection presented here consists of antique statues belonging to the King of Prussia. They were seized by Napoleon and formed the two "German rooms" of the Napoleon Museum. They were returned in 1815; Friedrich Tieck was one of the restorers who worked to restore them. The Königliches Museum opened its doors in 1830, when Tieck wrote the foreword to this catalog, which was published six years later. BIBLIOGRAPHY : A. Raczinski, Histoire de l'art moderne en Allemagne, Paris, 1841, t. III, pp. 174-178