The Zemanek-Münster German auction house will make a sale of archaeological goods of cultures settled on four continents on April 12, among which are almost twenty pieces from Mexico.
The firm spread that Angela Henkel-Küsters gathered some of the heritage works now offered together with the artist Kurt Sandweg (1927-2008): Since the 90s he has traveled with him numerous times to the ancestral deposits of Egypt and Mexico, in which he has concentrated more and more in collecting copper objects (ancient Egyptian art) and pre -Columbian ceramics and textiles
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The objects Mexicans
In the information catalog they lack the dates of their transfer or is barely informed in some of the possession after 1971. In none a holder or its arrival in Europe is recorded before 1970, the year in which the UNESCO Convention that established the legal and practical framework to prevent illicit traffic of cultural goods was signed.
The bid of the company based in the Bavarian city of Wurzburg is the first of objects linked to the Mesoamerican cultures recorded during the current federal administration in Mexico. Unlike most auctions in the previous six -year term, it does not happen in Paris.
Among the pieces are lot 13, described as Sitting Man Figuredated in the protoclassic period of 100 AC to 250 AD. From Jalisco and AMECA style
it is expected to get about 4 thousand euros for its sale (around 88 thousand pesos). It is reported that it belongs to the collection of Angela Henkel-Küsters, by Düsseldorf.
In that set, the figure of a pregnant woman sitting, lot 11 is found, with origin and estimated value equal to the previous ones.
In lot 193 the so -called female figure kneeling with vessel is located, which was awarded a similar antiquity and the origin in the Mexican west. The expected price is about 4 thousand euros. It is only stated that it is part of a German private collection.
▲ Objects come from two private collections. In lot 193, the so -called female figure kneeling with vessel is awarded an antiquity of between 2 thousand 100 and 1,850 years and its origin in the Mexican West. The rest of the pieces linked to our country, according to the catalog, have their origin in the Mayan and Chupícuaro, Colima, Jalisco and Veracruz cultures.Photo taken from the website of the
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In the so -called AUCTION 104 –Part of the collection of Angela Henkel-Küsters-includes lots from 9 to 19 that come from societies located in Chupícuaro, Colima, Jalisco, Mayan Zone or Veracruz of the Pre-Hispanic Mexico.
Zemanek-Münster spread that it is a collection of artifacts of ancient America that includes 38 lots, with impressive works by Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, which Henkel-Küsters has already exhibited in its own Cassetta gallery, in Kempen.
He added that the sale incorporates pre -Columbian ceramics gathered by Klaus Kalz, such as the pieces of lots 39 to 43, generically described figures as of the West of Mexico and whose oldest possession data are 1971.
The bid incorporates, according to Zemanek-Münster, works of art of historical importance in Africa and the Pacific in a private collection of Munich related to Ludwig Bretschneider, as well as sticks of the southern seas of the Alexander Kubetz and African and Asian weapons collection of the Erwin Melchardt collection.
The pieces, listed in more than 500 lots, will be exhibited from April 9 to 11, 2025 in the firm’s parent house. The catalog sets creations originating from the Nazca, Moche, Chavin, Ica, Vicus, Huari, Chimu (Peru) cultures; Bahia and Chorrera (Ecuador); Tairona (Colombia) and Condorhuasi (Argentina).
In addition there are objects described as from Egypt, Indonesia, Borneo, Sumatra, Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Australia, Nigeria, Congo, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Cameroon, Gabon, India, Afghanistan, Morocco, China, China, China, Mongolia, Mongolia, Mongolia, Mongolia Taiwan, Philippines, Fidji Islands, Samoa, New Zealand, Russia, Canada and Greenland.