Wilhelm Schmid
Selbstbildnis , 1929 (Executed)
Lot #321 |
2023-06-10 |
Ketterer Kunst, Munich
Modern Art Day Sale
Category:
Painting
Estimate:
EUR 10,000 - 11,600 (currency of sale)
USD 10,780 - 12,505 (approx.)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Ketterer Kunst
Auction number: 539
Auction name: Modern Art Day Sale
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: Munich
Start date: 2023-06-10
Currency: EUR
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: 20th Century German Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 65 x 54 cm (25.5 x 21.2 in)
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
65
Width In Centimeters:
54
Height In Inches:
25.5
Width In Inches:
21.2
Year notes: Executed around 1929/30.
Provenance
Kunstausstellung Kühl, Dresden (with the label on the reverse, after 1924) Dr. Ismar Littmann Collection, Breslau (until September 23, 1934). Estate of Dr. Ismar Littmann, Breslau (inherited from Dr. Ismar Littmann on September 23, 1934, until ca. 1934/35: Dresdner Bank). Dresdner Bank, Breslau (as security from the above, bank mandate “Schwedenberg (Breslau branch)“). Auction house Max Perl, Berlin, February 26/27, 1935 (consigned by the above, passed). Dresdner Bank, Breslau (bank mandate “Schwedenberg (Breslau branch)“). State-owned (since August 15, 1935: en-bloc acquisition of pledged property and own property of Dresdner Bank through the Prussian State). Nationalgalerie, Berlin (since December 10, 1936: taken over from the above in line with decree Vd 29/36). Nationalgalerie East Berlin (belatedly inventoried in 1968). Nationalgalerie, State Museums Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (since 1991: Inventory no. A IV 204, merger of East/West collections). Returned to the heirs after Dr. Ismar Littmann, Breslau (2022). No pending restitution claims.
Condition
This artwork is in overall very good condition.
Exhibited
Exhibition of modern french paintings (École de Paris), Beaux Arts Gallery, London, June 7 - June 24, no year (1933), no. 42. Umkämpfte Wege der Moderne. Wilhelm Schmid und die Novembergruppe, Potsdam Museum – Forum für Kunst und Geschichte, Potsdam, September 29, 2018 - January 21, 2019, cat. no. 2 (with illu. 46, pp. 100, 212).
Literature
Dr. Ismar Littmann Collection, Breslau, inventory, 1930, no. 285. Max Perl, Berlin, Bücher des 15.-20. Jahrh.: darunter Bücher aus der Bibliothek Robert Steinberg, Bielefeld ; Gemälde, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Graphik, Kunstgewerbe, Plastik, 188th auction, February 26/27, 1935, no. 2566. Inventory catalog State Museums Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Gemälde des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Friedegund Weidemann, Berlin 1976, p. 63 (with black-and-white illu.). Lynn Rother, Kunst durch Kredit. Die Berliner Museen und ihre Erwerbungen von der Dresdner Bank 1935, Berlin 2017, pp. 13-51 (on the acquisitions made by Berlin museums) and p. 432 (on this work).