The first two tranches of the auctions with objects from Karl Lagerfeld's estate set standards in December: With 400 to 500 lots each, the auctions at Sotheby's in Paris and Monaco brought in three to four times their total estimate.

This raises expectations for the last auctions belonging to the fashion tsar, which will take place on May 4th and 5th at Sotheby's in Cologne - and are reason enough for the auction house to hold the first live auctions at the new location.

The 233 lots in the offer come primarily from Lagerfeld's last residence in Louveciennes.

By furnishing his villa near Versailles, the fashion designer had expressed his connection to his old homeland: he had collected advertising posters and furniture from Germany from the early 20th century in the property.

Fritz Rotstadt's 69 x 91 centimeter color lithograph on linen for the film classic "The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari” with an estimate of 80,000 to 120,000 euros.

"I love the graphic side of 'The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari,'" Lagerfeld said in 2016. "Every picture is a picture, and I like that."

Posters, furniture and memorabilia

More than half of the 57 lots presented by Sotheby's evening auction on May 4th in the Palais Oppenheim are posters – by Ludwig Hohlwein, Walter Schnackenberg and Bruno Paul, among others.

Oskar Schlemmer designed the color lithograph for his Triadic Ballet in 1926 (estimate: 15,000 to 20,000 euros).

Lucian Bernhard's framed color lithograph "Layer of Soap" in object poster style from 1910 is reminiscent of Lagerfeld's beloved "Choupette" (3000/5000) with its depiction of a white cat.

Of course, the fashion designer's memorabilia and curiosities are also represented.

A collection of 310 - probably non-functional - iPods of various generations is offered in five lots of 50 or 80 pieces each, which Lagerfeld had recorded with a special music style (3000/5000 each).

An inspirational book by the master, into which he pasted photographs and prints - with a print on the outside showing Lagerfeld's profile in symbiosis with his cat - is expected to fetch between 2,000 and 3,000 euros, while a set of three fashion sketches by his hand will fetch between 500 and 500 euros 800 euros is estimated.

The illustrations that the designer made for Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale “The Emperor's New Clothes” around 1990 are divided into 14 lots (1000/2000 each).

Among Lagerfeld's furniture, designs by Bruno Paul stand out - such as a sun-yellow sideboard from 1927 (1000/1500) and an olive-green wardrobe with a mirror made of silver-plated wood (2000/2500) - as well as Hans J. Wegner's futuristic seating furniture from 1960 (4000/6000 ).

Because a Lagerfeld estate auction must also include accessories, in addition to twelve designer sunglasses (150/200), several lots with the well-known fingerless gloves (300/500) and a fan signed by Lynn Wyatt with newspaper clippings glued on (200/300) are up for auction .

The expectations for the auctions together with 250 lots from the current online auctions amount to around 700,000 euros.