$9,450
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Auction: December 8, 2021 11:00:00 AM EDT
Original wood box complete with thirty-two playing pieces
The pieces: stained and ebonized maple
The interior lid stamped: "HARTWIG/GES.GESCH."
The two Queens stamped: "GES.GESCH."
Provenance
Acquired in Germany
Thence by descent to Private Collection, Main Line, Pennsylvania
Literature
Bauhaus-Archiv, Experiment Bauhaus, (1988), pp. 400–01 (for a similar example)
Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, and Ise Gropius eds., Bauhaus 1919-1928, (1938), pg. 44 (for a similar example)
Magdalena Droste and Bauhaus Archiv, Bauhaus: 1919–1933, (1993), pg. 94 (for a similar example)
Magdalena Droste and Peter Hahn, et al., eds., Bauhaus Archive Berlin: The Collection, (1999), pp. 88, 90 (for a discussion of the artist and a similar example)
Jeannine Fiedler and Peter Feierabend, Bauhaus, (2000), pp. 406, 417, 633 (for similar examples)
Larry List, "Joseph Hartwig's Bauhaus Chess Set: Dr Zilboorg's Contribution," in The Imagery of Chess Revisited, (2005). pp. 55-60