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The Klaus Biemann Collection of Fine German Glass Wednesday 26 November 2014 The Klaus Biemann ColleCTion of fine german glass Wednesday 26 November 2014 the KlauS biemann ColleCtion of fine german glass Wednesday 26 November 2014 at 10.30 101 New Bond Street, London Viewing bidS enquirieS CuStomer SerViCeS Sunday 23 November +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Simon Cottle Monday to Friday 8.30 to 18.00 11:00 to 15:00 +44 (0) 20 7447 4401 fax +44 (0) 207 468 8383 +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Monday 24 Novemebr To bid via the internet please [email protected] visit bonhams.com Please see page 4 for bidder 9:00 to 16:30 John Sandon information including after-sale Tuesday 25 November +44 (0) 207 468 8244 9:00 to 16:30 Please note that bids should be collection and shipment submitted no later than 4pm on [email protected] Sale number the day prior to the sale. 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Zone 117 exported from the EU within To obtain any Bonhams Temple Quay House strict deadlines. catalogue or 2 The Square to take out an annual Temple Quay For lots on which Import VAT subscription: BRISTOL BS1 6EB has been charged; marked in Subscriptions Department the catalogue with a * or Ω, lots +44 (0) 1666 502200 must be exported within 30 +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax Important Notice days of Bonhams’ receipt of [email protected] A surcharge of 2% is applicable payment and within 3 months of when using Mastercard, Visa the sale date. For all other lots and overseas debit cards. export must take place within 3 months of the sale date. The following symbol is used to denote that VAT is due on the For further VAT information hammer price and buyer’s please contact: premium [email protected] † VAT 20% on hammer price and buyer’s premium * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on hammer price and the prevailing rate on buyer’s premium maSterpieCeS of the engraVer’S art Introduction by Paul von Lichtenberg Klaus Biemann, born in 1926, was educated in his native Austria In 1998 and 1999 he and his wife, the late Vera Biemann, repeatedly and obtained his Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry in 1951 from travelled throughout Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany to the University of Innsbruck, his home town. In 1955 he accepted visit museums and private collections, which keep works by Dominik a postdoctoral research position at the Massachusetts Institute Biemann and other early master glass engravers. Luckily, during of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, and was appointed to the the roughly ten ensuing years a number of important private glass faculty of this world-famous University a mere two years later, rising collections such as the Prince Reuss Collection, the Dr. Otto Dettmers to Professor by 1963, a position he held until his retirement in Collection, the legendary Rudolf Just Collection, Ceramics and Glass 1996. He pioneered the use of mass spectrometry for the structure from the House of Hanover, the Dr. Meinhard Heschl Glass Collection determination of natural products of biological and medical interest, and Masterpieces of European Glass from the Hida Takayama chiefly alkaloids and proteins. In 1976 Professor Biemann briefly Museum, were dispersed in highly advertised auctions or, in several deviated from this path—he describes this as ‘scientific charity’— other cases, rarest glass changed hands by word of mouth or private and sent a miniaturised instrument to Mars as part of NASA’s Viking treaty without perturbing the market. Mission to search for organic compounds at the surface of the Red Planet. He was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Many of these historic and commemorative glasses are unique Sciences in 1966 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and fresh for the market. The limitations Klaus Biemann set himself (USA) in 1993. The latest of the numerous honours he received was concern highest quality engraving on colourless glass and as often as the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Chemistry in 2007. possible some reference to the Austrian Empire, its rulers, its peoples and its foes. During a break at an organic chemistry conference in Graz, Austria, in 1993, Dr. Horst Biemann, a chemical engineer and keeper of many I was always impressed by Klaus’s enthusiasm and willingness to family documents, pointed out to Klaus, whom he met there for learn a completely new subject for him long after retirement. His the first time, that they were distant cousins and related to Dominik reference library boasts the rarest and most reliable publications Biemann (1800–1857), the famous glass engraver (their mutual and his letters reflect expert opinion and an appreciation of beauty great-great-great-uncle). The Biemann family can be traced back and understanding of how and why the glasses were decorated, to the early 1650s in Northern Bohemia and even Klaus Biemann’s which is a pleasure to read and re-read. Having assembled and grandfather, Willibald Biemann was born in Neuwelt, just as Dominik researched his significant collection of engraved glass, in recent years Biemann. In fact, Willibald’s son, Willibald Wilhelm, Klaus’s father, Klaus documented each piece in detail in English, knowing full well moved to the university town of Innsbruck in 1907 only to be able to that his children, neither of whom speaks German, do not share his study pharmacy, where he then settled.
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