ADOLPH VON MENZEL (BRESLAU 1815-1905 BERLIN)
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ID 1443177
Lot 196 | ADOLPH VON MENZEL (BRESLAU 1815-1905 BERLIN)
Estimate value
50000GBP £ 50 000 – 70 000
Kanzelpredigt in der Pfarrkirche zu Innsbruck
signed and dated Ad.Menzel 81' (lower left)
graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on paper
16 ¼ x 10 5/8 in. (41.1 x 27 cm.)
Provenance
Trade Councillor H. Frenkel, Berlin;
acquired by the Nationalgalerie, Berlin in 1907,
exchanged in 1924 with Doctor Wendland for a work by Hans von Marées,
Hugo Fischer, Bühl.
Kurt and Henriette “Harrie” Hirschland, Essen;
Henriette “Harrie” Hirschland, Amsterdam, by April 1937 until stored by the Amsterdamsche Crediet Maatschappij NV at De Gruijter & Co., October 1940;
Confiscated as “enemy assets” by the Sammelverwaltung feindlicher Haushaltsgeräte or “SfH” (the Collective Administration of Enemy Household Appliances) in the Hague, April 14, 1943.
Sale, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 29 November – 3 December 1955, lot 1962 (acquired by ‘Nusser’).
Anonymous sale; Neumeister Auctions, Munich, 25 March 1977, lot 1644.
Private collection, Germany, acquired at the above sale, and by descent.
Literature
H. von Tschudi, Adolph von Menzel, Munich, 1905, no. 628, illustrated.
Ed. C. Keish, Adolf Menzel 1815-1905 Between Romanticism and Impressionism, New Haven & London, 1996, pp. 410-411 no. 176.
Exhibited
Berlin, Austellung von Werken Adolph Menzels in der Kgl. Akademie der Künste zur Feier seines siebzigsten Geburtstages am 8 December 1885, 1885, no. 81.
Berlin, Royal Academy of Arts, Kunst-Austellung zur Ehrung der achtzigjähren Mitglieder Andreas Achenbach, Adolph Menzel, Julius Schrader, November, 1895, no. 109.
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, A. Menzel – Ausstellungder Genossenschaft der bildenden Künstler Wiens, 1896, no. 241.
Düsseldorf, Internationale Kunstaustellung, 1904, no. 70.
Berlin, Königliche National-Galerie, Ausstellung von Werken Adolph von Menzels, 1905, no. 239.
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Aus der Sammlung Hugo Fischer: Deutsche Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts, 8 April - 3 May 1964, no. 15.
Tyrol and Innsbruck, 1992, no. 73.
Washington, National Gallery of Art, Adolph Menzel, 15 September 1996- 5 January 1997, no. 175, this exhibition later travelled to Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 7 February-11 May 1997.
Artist: | Adolf von Menzel (1815 - 1905) |
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Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
Art style: | Romanticism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
Artist: | Adolf von Menzel (1815 - 1905) |
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Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
Art style: | Romanticism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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