The Wool Market in Braunschweig.

AUCTION 59 | Thursday, June 20th, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Ceremonial Objects and Works of Art

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Lot 213
LILIEN, EPHRAIM MOSES.

The Wool Market in Braunschweig.

Etching. Signed by artist in pencil lower right. Unexamined out of frame. 17.5 x 15.5 inches to mat.

1923:

Est: $600 - $900
Scene from the Germany city of Braunschweig’s wool market commonly known as the Alte Waage or ‘Old Scales’ Building (built in 1534), with the stately Gothic south tower of St. Andrew’s Church in the background. Following a 1944 firestorm attack on the city, the timber-framed structures of the Alte Waage and other surrounding buildings were destroyed and much of St. Andrew’s was severely damaged.