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Auction 7 · Lot 239
(SYNAGOGUE).
- Estimate
- $5,000–$7,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
c.1855.
Description
The Synagogue at Brünn (Brno), Czechoslovakia.
Set of four fine architectural renderings by Count Johann Julius Romano von Ringe (1818-82) and Count Schwendenwein von Lonauberg (1817-1885).
i: Main Elevation.
ii: Side Elevation.
iii: Ground Floor Plan.
iv: Upper Level Plan.
Pencil, pen-and-ink and watercolor on paper. Each drawing signed by the architects lower right.
summary
Jews first settled in Brno, capital of Moravia, Czechoslovakia, in the first half of the 13th century. They were expelled in 1454 and were not formally re-admitted until 1848. The town’s first synagogue was built in 1855. See EJ, IV cols.1384-5
363x475 mm.
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