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Cows at Lake Starnberg
Lost Art-ID
626589
Artist / Creator
Voltz, Friedrich
Birth
1817.10.31, Nördlingen
Death
1886.06.25, München
Place of activity
München
Title
Cows at Lake Starnberg
Dating
1885
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Panel (Oak) / painted
Height
27.70 cm
Width
41.50 cm
Inventory number
12582
Description
In the foreground a light-coloured and a brown cow looking to the left. On the left a knitting girl in a red skirt and yellow bodice sits with a dog in front of a rotten wooden hut. Behind it some trees. Towards the back right another cow drinking from a lake.
Finds on the reverse:
Parquetted canvas, with the inventory label BStGS "Inv. Nr. 12582" in the centre left, "B 353/II" [Bormann's invoice number] [under the now removed BStGS Inv. label] in the centre right, next to it in blue "J. 1295", at bottom left sticker with stamp border and surrounding beige pattern on it handwritten: “Voltz [...] Bild aus / dem Jahr 1885 / Motiv am Starnberger / See”, next to it at bottom centre traces of detached sticker, at bottom right round yellow sticker on it "J. 1245" [Bormann inventory from Obersalzberg], on the decorative frame top right “12127" [Munich number], left centre small white sticker on it in red Inv. No. BStGS ”12582".
Holding
Provenance
01.05.1918 - n.d., Fleischmann (probably Kunsthandlung E. A. Fleischmann), Munich, acquired from Hermann Fahrig, Dresden, at auction by Kunsthandlung Hugo Helbing, Munich;
1933 - 1938 at the latest, possibly Kunsthandlung Hugo Helbing, Munich;
possibly 1938/41 - 07.08.1942, Galerie an der Wagmüllerstraße (owned by Jakob Scheidwimmer, formerly Hugo Helbing), Munich, possibly acquired in connection with the ‘Aryanisation’ of Kunsthandlung Hugo Helbing, Munich;
07/08/1942 - 1945, NSDAP (party chancellery), Munich, acquired from the Galerie an der Wagmüllerstraße, Munich;
25.10.1945 - 10.06.1949, Central Collecting Point, Munich number 12127, securing by American Allies;
10.06.1949 - 22.02.1952, Prime Minister of Bavaria, Munich, fiduciary handover by American Allies;
22.02.1952 - 10.12.1956, trust administration of cultural property at the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Munich, fiduciary transfer by the Bavarian Minister President;
since 10.12.1956, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, transfer of ownership from the Munich Finance Office to the Free State of Bavaria
Literature / Source
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Contact
Staatliche Museumsagentur Bayern
Referat für Provenienzforschung
Landshuter Allee 8
80637 München
Germany
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