Lot 65: PAUL HEERMANN GERMAN, (1673-1732) DRESDEN, CIRCA 1715-1720

in plain fruitwood frame

signed with the monogram PH on the bottom right

ivory: 14.5 by 10cm. frame: 16 by 11.5cm.

Born in Freiburg, Paul Heermann had by 1701-2 established his career in Dresden as a sculptor in wood, stone and ivory. A number of ivory reliefs of the Holy Family, with and without the infant St. John, are recorded by Theuerkauff which are for the most part similarly monogrammed: Brunswick, Dresden, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, London, New York and Schwerin.

RELATED LITERATURE
C.Theuerkauff, 1984, pp.56-59; C.Theuerkauff, 1994, pp.39-40; F.Fischer, 1955, p.55; K.A.Möller, p.50