WILHELM MORGNER (1891-1917)

Lot 217
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Lot 217 | WILHELM MORGNER (1891-1917)
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$ 400 000 – 600 000
WILHELM MORGNER (1891-1917)
Himmelfahrt
signed with monogram and dated '.12' (lower right)
oil on board
28 ¾ x 39 ¼ in. (73 x 99.8 cm.)
Painted in 1912




Provenance

Maria Morgner, Soest (mother of the artist, 1917).
Städtische Gemäldesammlung, Soest (acquired from the above, March 1931).
Confiscated from the above as 'degenerate art' by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin, (23 August 1937; EK no. 2847).
Buch- und Kunsthandlung Karl Buchholz, Berlin (on commission from the above, November 1938, until March 1939).
Returned to the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin.
Bernhard Böhmer, Güstrow (probaby acquired from the above, by 15 April 1939).
Private collection, Berlin; sale, Grisebach GmbH, Berlin, 27 November 1998, lot 18.
Private collection, Great Britain; sale, Grisebach GmbH, Berlin, 7 June 2002, lot 22.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.



Literature

W. Frieg, "Wilhelm Morgner" in Junge Kunst, Leipzig, 1920, vol. 12 (illustrated in color).
T. Drebusch, Wilhelm Morgner: Ein Sonderfall der Aktion "Entartete Kunst", Soest, 2016, pp. 20, 23, 104 and 141 (illustrated in color, p. 105; dated 1913).
K. Bussmann, Wilhelm Morgner, Stuttgart, 1991, p. 29 (illustrated).
A. Tiedemann, Die "Entartete" Moderne und Ihr Amerikanischer Markt, Berlin, 2013, vol. 8, p. 313.



Exhibited

Dusseldorf, Galerie Flechtheim, Wilhelm Morgner, July 1920, no. 46 (dated 1913).
Städtische Gemäldesammlung, Soest (March 1931-August 1937).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Master Artworks from Private Collections, August-November 2005, pp. 5 and 51 (illustrated in color, p. 5).
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