For-Auction is delighted to present a series of exciting auctions over the coming months starting in October 2024 for the family of Johanna Thannhauser.
Brisbane based Johanna Thannhauser’s long involvement with the world of antiques and art began early, under the influence of her parents growing up in the family home of her mother and father who were antiques collectors, in Amersfoort in The Netherlands. In 1951 Johanna, her sister and brothers, husband and three children, emigrated to Brisbane, Australia.
While running a fashion business, Johanna would also be seen selling antiques at the popular Clayfield markets from the early 1980’s, before setting up her first shop on Sandgate road. (Her son Paul would soon follow, and, to this day, he runs Sherwood Bazaar Antiques in Brisbane.)
Johanna would then go on and become an investor, and later a dealer- participant, in the Cordelia Street Antique Centre.
However, in 1983 a terrible fire destroyed her family home and with it much of her family’s antiques collection and this had a great impact on her, but over time she regained her enthusiasm for antiques and she would go on and fill her glorious South-Bank Brisbane apartment with all the Dutch, French, English and Oriental antiques that now form this amazing collection.
The collection is as extensive as it is broad, and it will be dispersed over several auctions in Melbourne.
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Enquires: Paul Sumner
0412 337 827 | paul@forauction.com.au
