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Viebahn Fine Arts - A Family Tradition for over 30 Years: now in its second generation, Viebahn Fine Arts founded in 1979 and carried on by the brothers Nils Viebahn and Lennart Viebahn, deals in fine art and antiques from the 16th to the early 19th century. It has earned international recognition while forging lasting relationships with museums, collectors and interior designers. Viebahn Fine Arts specializes in the finest pieces of furniture and works of art, including clocks and European sculptures, primarily from the Neo-Classical period. We are also dedicated to p...Read More

Viebahn Fine Arts

Established in 19791stDibs seller since 2013

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Important Early 19th Century Danish Neoclassical Secretaire NIcolai Abildgaard
By Nicolai Abildgaard
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
The slender secretaire on an unusual high stand with four curved legs dived into quarters, the frame with a central inlaid palmette motif. The fall down writing flap, enclosing a fitted interior with numerous drawers, above and below are two doors enclosing one shelf. The top of the secretaire in form of a classical triangular pediment, the center of which is decorated with an inlaid stylized anthemion. The entire front is very plain and geometrical, divided into six panels inlaid with rectangular fields in light wood. The design of this mahogany secretaire is based on classical Roman and Greek models, in this case the bookcases that were portrayed on frescoes, reliefs and Roman gold glass. As secretaires were not known in Antiquity, Abildgaard designed his secretaire as a cupboard though in such a way, that the two centre doors are actually a fall front writing top. The carved turned underframe is inspired by Etruscan footstools, which were known especially from reliefs and had been reproduced in contemporary prints. Abildgaard designed this piece of furniture far more in accordance with ancient tradition than did the other furniture designer of the day. The most important (and avantgarde) piece of the furniture Abildgaard designed in the first decade of the 19th century, is this secretaire, which marks a real renewal in relation to the secretaires that constituted the master's test for the members of the guild of cabinetmakers at this time. Compared with these, this secretaire is a very light piece of furniture that does not follow the contemporary fashion towards classical architectural decorations such as columns, pillars, architraves, etc. which often endow such pieces. Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (11 September 1743 – 4 June 1809) was a leading Danish Neoclassical painter who also designed (mostly for his own use) elegant Grecian furniture...
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Antique Early 19th Century Danish Neoclassical Secretaires

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Bone, Maple

Important Neoclassical late 18th Century Italian Giltwood Console Table
By Giueseppe Maria Bonzanigo
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Very fine and extraordinary North-Italian console table of large proportions with a beautiful marble top (Brèche Médicis). The entire console table is richly decorated with classicis...
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Console Tables

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Marble

Jean-Joseph Chapuis Rare Pair of Empire parcel-gilt japanned Fauteuils
By Jean Joseph Chapuis
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Despite his long life, very little is known about the general production of menuisier (chairmaker) Jean-Joseph Chapuis and even less about his use of bent laminates, which must be viewed as the most advanced of its kind until the appearance of Michael Thonet’s work of the 1830s. The profound reverence for the classical world in enlightened circles in early nine-teenth-century Europe and the United States often resulted in the archaeological resurrection of the art, architecture, and design of ancient Greece and Rome. No chair employing the innovative technique of bending wood more boldly expresses this allegiance to the past than this armchair painted in le style antique and based on the ancient Roman sella curulis (folding stool); With a curved toprail decorated with putti supporting a medaillion and flanked by scrolling acanthus, the arms with ball finials, above a caned seat, on curved supports terminating in foliate gilt-metal sabots. This merger of technological innovation with fashionable aesthetics parallels the work of the American Samuel Gragg...
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Antique Early 19th Century Belgian Empire Armchairs

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Bentwood

Gustavian white painted Longcase Clock Mathias Kullberg Stockholm 18th century
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Very decorative Swedish longcase clock from the Gustavian period painted in a cream white with giltwood decoration. The dial is signed by the St...
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Antique 1770s Swedish Gustavian Grandfather Clocks and Longcase Clocks

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Wood

Swedish Rococo Longcase Clock signed Petter Södermann Stockholm
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Very decorative and fine rococo longcase clock by the renowned clockmaker Petter Södermann Stockholm (1740-1813). Finely carved case with scroll and shellwork gilded and painted in a...
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Antique 1770s Swedish Rococo Grandfather Clocks and Longcase Clocks

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Wood

Jean Royère, interesting 1940's French Side Board Art Deco / Cubist
By Jean Royère
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Very attractive small and narrow, cubist-style hallway sideboard from the 1940’s. It has an unusual door that opens at the corner. The body of this moder...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards

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Aluminum

Authentic Early Modernist Chair Robert Mallet Stevens, France, 1930s
By Robert Mallet-Stevens
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945) came from an art-loving family and was one of the most influential French avant-garde architects and designers. He met very early on René Herbst and...
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Vintage 1930s French Modern Chairs

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Steel

French 1940's Cabinet Mahogany and Leather attributed to Rousseau et Lardin
By Rousseau et Lardin
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Perfectly proportioned small French Art Deco living room cabinet/ bar cabinet made of mahogany and leather veneer with the best craftsmanship and probably designed by Rousseau et Lar...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Cabinets

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Brass

Jaques Adnet large French Sideboard 1940's Maple and Leather
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
This exceptionally large and excellently crafted sideboard from France dates from around 1940 and is attributed to the French star designer Jaques Adnet (1900-1984). Although some o...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards

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Leather, Mahogany, Maple

French large Bronze of a Lion after Claude Michel Clodion, 19th century
By Claude Michel Clodion
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Very fine and large bronze of a reclining lion. Many details, such as the treatment of the lion’s mane demonstrate the sculptor’s mastery skill, as well as an understanding of the an...
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Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Animal Sculptures

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Bronze

Rare Gilt-bronze French Empire Charles X Sunflower Mantel Clock
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Gilt and patinated bronze. The original movement has been cleaned and revised and is in perfect working condition (runs for around one week). Overall authentic condition with its ori...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks

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Bronze

Rare French Empire Mahogany Bookcase Library Jacob Desmalter
By François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Large and very unusual French Empire bookcase in beautifully figured mahogany veneer. Four glazed doors (original glass), interior with original shelves (two on each level allow an adjustment for larger...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Bookcases

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Mahogany

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