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Landscape with ruin
Lost Art-ID
472300
Artist / Creator
Weitsch, Friedrich Georg
Birth
1758.08.08, Braunschweig
Death
1828.05.30, Berlin
Title
Landscape with ruin
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Panel (Oak) / painted
Height
19.00 cm
Width
19.00 cm
Inventory number
195/196/89
Description
In a large ruin situated by a road a herd is grazing. By the way the shepherd in conversation with a farmer. (with counterpart) Signed on the reverse: Weitsch jun.
Provenance
Brederlo painting collection (Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo); 1906 loaned to the city of Riga by the von Sengbusch family with the right to return the paintings at any time; Dr med. Reinhold Alexander and Margarete von Sengbusch; in 1944, the paintings were relocated to Troppau (now Opava, Czech Republic) together with the other Brederlo paintings on the orders of the regional commissioner and the provisional mayor of the city of Riga (Hugo Wittrock); when the relocated paintings were returned to Riga, however, this painting was not included in the crates; whereabouts since then unknown
Literature / Source
Katalog Wilhelm Neumann, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Gemälde der Friedrich Brederloschen Sammlung zu Riga, 1894, Nr. 195 (87); Sammlung Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo - Frīdriha Vilhelma Brederlo Kolekcija Museum für Ausländische Kunst - Ārzemju mākslas muzejs Riga 2001, Nr. 156
Published since
Contact
Werner von Sengbusch
Wiesbadener Str. 26
61462 Königstein
Germany
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