If the monarchy in Germany would not have been abolished in the November 1918 revolution, his grandfather would have become King of Wurtemberg. His other grandfather, Fernando I of Bulgariait was a self -proclaimed Tsar. Duke Alejandro Eugenio has been custodian … of family heritage until his death, in 2024, and about 460 pieces of his inheritance, mostly personal objects of their ancestors, they now go out auction in Munich, arouseing a great interest in the collectors. The history of each piece, carefully documented, envives the growing demand for antiques related to the European nobility And it agitates the fashion of the ‘noble leaves’, an official denomination used by the Neumeister auction house and responds to a new trend in European galleries.
According to the organizers, one of the outstanding works of the auction is the ‘staircase to the monastir Sveti to resign in the Euxinograd castle park’, of Olga Wissinger-Florian. The artist captured the scene during a stay in 1906, when she traveled to the castle near Varna, in the Black Sea, by invitation of Zar Fernando. The estimated price ranges between 20,000 and 30,000 euros. The nostalgic of the German monarchy especially value, however, the miniature portraits of the 19th century nobles. Among them is a portrait of the ZAR FERNANDO I DE BULGARIA Painted on ivory around 1900. The work, which measures only 2.4 x 1.8 centimeters, is set with diamond roses and its price is estimated between 1,200 and 1,500 euros. Other miniatures show Fernando’s wife, Princess María Luisa de Borbón-Parma, and her children, including Prince Kirill as a child, with an estimated value of between 4,000 and 5,000 euros.
Also figure In the catalog a gold and care jeweler, decorated with views to Naples, which belonged to María Luisa de Borbón-Parma and that Alejandro Eugenio He remembered in one of the rooms of the castle of Altshausen, between the Danube and Lake Constanza, where he spent his childhood. He also spent long seasons in Lindach Castle, in Schwäbisch Gmünd, before marching to form as a archivist in the Stuttgart state archive and undertake his studies of art history and archeology. In the 1960s, he moved to Munich and resided in the noble Bogenhause. There he worked for the Christie’s auction house and the Bavaria monuments conservation department, advising museums and art fairs. “He loved having entertaining anecdotes and fun gossip on his ancestors,” recalls Marie von Waldburg, and with her confessions about each small object has contributed to this new nostalgia for European real houses, a change in trend in Germany.
Small collectors can find at very accessible prices objects that connect with the intimacy of those past times, such as the wedding veil of Princess María Luisa de Borbón-Parma, the children’s clothes of the posterior Zaris de Bulgaria or the magnificent Tabatière with portraits framed with diamonds of King Fernando I of Bourbon-Sicily, his wife and eight of her children, inherited by the daughter Marie-Amo. Her face also appears in the portraits of her husband Luis Felipe’s family, Duke of Orleans, later King of France. Duke Alejandro Eugenio also arrived the original bracelet with seven ‘Médaillons à l’œil’ (gold medallions)in each of which is seen an eye painted from the members of the Orleans family.
These are objects for daily use of sentimental value and that can be acquired from prices as basic as 30 or 40 euros. Almost everything, be it porcelain, silver, furniture, fans or umbrellas with beautiful mangoes, dates from the nineteenth century, as well as dolls, cans or large amounts of black and black lace. Some pieces were ennobled with a coat of arms or a monogram, others are oddities, such as the lovely children’s costumes of the Bulgarian Tsar court with embroidery and ornaments, whose departure price will be 120 euros.
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