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Lot 17ART FOR FUTURE – SELECTED WORKS FROM THE UNICREDIT GROUP
Christie’s is delighted to work with UniCredit managing the sale of some of the bank’s artworks from Austria, Germany and Italy. The proceeds will be primarily used to support the Group’s Social Impact Banking (SIB) initiatives. The remaining balance will be dedicated to other relevant projects, including the local support of emerging artists. UniCredit will also look to replace the masterpieces sold with works of young and emerging artists.
Social Impact Banking is part of UniCredit’s commitment to building a fairer and more inclusive society. It aims to identify, finance and promote people and companies that can have a positive social impact. As well as continuing to provide credit to projects and organisations not usually served by the traditional banking sector, UniCredit employees educate micro-entrepreneurs, social enterprises and vulnerable or disadvantaged groups, building valuable networks within the bank’s communities. SIB also focuses on monitoring and measuring outcomes, essential for sustainable growth. In 2019 SIB focused on further roll-out in additional UniCredit markets, including: Germany, Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. UniCredit is a successful pan-European Commercial Bank, with a fully plugged in CIB, delivering a unique Western, Central and Eastern European network to its extensive client franchise. UniCredit offers both local and international expertise to its clients, providing them with unparalleled access to leading banks in its thirteen core markets through its European banking network. Leveraging on an international network of representative offices and branches, UniCredit serves clients in another eighteen countries worldwide.
Christie’s is delighted to work with UniCredit managing the sale of some of the bank’s artworks from Austria, Germany and Italy. The proceeds will be primarily used to support the Group’s Social Impact Banking (SIB) initiatives. The remaining balance will be dedicated to other relevant projects, including the local support of emerging artists. UniCredit will also look to replace the masterpieces sold with works of young and emerging artists.
Social Impact Banking is part of UniCredit’s commitment to building a fairer and more inclusive society. It aims to identify, finance and promote people and companies that can have a positive social impact. As well as continuing to provide credit to projects and organisations not usually served by the traditional banking sector, UniCredit employees educate micro-entrepreneurs, social enterprises and vulnerable or disadvantaged groups, building valuable networks within the bank’s communities. SIB also focuses on monitoring and measuring outcomes, essential for sustainable growth. In 2019 SIB focused on further roll-out in additional UniCredit markets, including: Germany, Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. UniCredit is a successful pan-European Commercial Bank, with a fully plugged in CIB, delivering a unique Western, Central and Eastern European network to its extensive client franchise. UniCredit offers both local and international expertise to its clients, providing them with unparalleled access to leading banks in its thirteen core markets through its European banking network. Leveraging on an international network of representative offices and branches, UniCredit serves clients in another eighteen countries worldwide.
SAMUEL FRIEDRICH SCHMIEDER (GERMANY 1691-1777)
Nuremberg from the south-east, with the St. Lorenz Kirche, the Sebalduskirche and the Kaiserburg
Closed30 July 2020
Price Realised
GBP 6,875
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The present view is a precise depiction of the Imperial City of Nuremberg from the south-east, showing the river Pegnitz flowing into the city, in which the formidable Nuremberg castle rises on a sandstone ridge dominating the historic centre of Nuremberg.
The artist, Samuel Friedrich Schmieder, painted four views of the town of Regensburg in 1725, which are today in the town collection, from the different compass points, which suggests that he was a topographical painter active in Bavaria. Very few documented works by the artist are known today and this signed painting is an important addition to his oeuvre and a useful historical document as to the layout of Nuremberg in 1734.
The artist, Samuel Friedrich Schmieder, painted four views of the town of Regensburg in 1725, which are today in the town collection, from the different compass points, which suggests that he was a topographical painter active in Bavaria. Very few documented works by the artist are known today and this signed painting is an important addition to his oeuvre and a useful historical document as to the layout of Nuremberg in 1734.