Found-Object Report | Object report
Mother and child
Lost Art-ID
630046
Artist / Creator
Barlach, Ernst
Birth
1870.01.02, Wedel (Holstein)
Death
1938.10.24, Rostock
Place of activity
Güstrow; Paris; Hamburg; Berlin; Wedel (Holstein)
Title
Mother and child
Dating
1919/1920
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Wood (Oak) / carved
Height
97.00 cm
Width
52.00 cm
Depth
9.50 cm
Inventory number
1946/0008
Description
inscribed on recto lower left: E Barlach 1920
verso upper left round stamp [presumably customs stamp]; top middle label: Exhibition Modern German [...], New Burlington Gallery [...] London [ms]; below KHZ label; r. next to it KHZ label [largely torn off]; annotated in red: W 2046; top middle label: Gustav Knauer [...] 4871 Kunst-Abteilung [ms]; below label: James Bourlet & Sons, Fine Art Packers, Frame [...] B 42231 [...] 17 & 18, Nassau Street, Mortimer Street, W. Phones: - Museum 1871 & 7988 [ms]; below label: B 4 [hs]; r. next to yellow KHZ label; middle left 2 KHZ labels; bottom left: 23 [hs, standing on right side, white chalk]; bottom left KHZ label; r. next to paper/label: [...] [Nati] onal [...] 60 Rue Saint [...] ROQ. 93-87 [?; ms]
Provenance
3.4.1922 - 18.12.1934, Fritz Hess (*1886, +1976) (collector), Berlin/London, purchase
1.9.1931, Galerie Fischer (auction), Lucerne, lot 46, unsold
1.9.1931 - 18.12.1934, Galerie Fischer (gallery), Lucerne, commission
18.12.1934 - 19.2.1947, Galerie Fischer (gallery), Lucerne, purchase, offsetting a debt
19.2.1947, Librairie du Château d'Art E. Beyeler, Basel, purchase
from 20.3.1946, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich
The provenance between 1933 and 1945 is not clear or has gaps. No evidence of Nazi-looted art has emerged from the available research. However, there are indications of Nazi-looted art and/or conspicuous accompanying circumstances. Further research into the provenance is required.
Further information in the online catalogue of the Kunsthaus Zürich: external link
Literature / Source
Laur, Elisabeth / Probst, Volker / Bubrowski, Ulrich: Ernst Barlach. Das plastische Werk, Güstrow 2006, S. 160, Nr. 287
Schult, Friedrich: Ernst Barlach. Das plastische Werk, Hamburg 1960, Nr. 220.
Die Sammlung H., Berlin: Gemälde alter und moderner Meister, moderne Plastik; Aukt.-Kat. Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer Berlin/Galerie Fischer Luzern (Berlin, 20.-25.07.; Luzern, 24.-31.08.; Versteigerung in Luzern, Hotel National, 01.09.1931), Berlin 1931, o.S., Nr. 46 und Tafel XXXVII.
Exhibition of 20th Century German Art, Ausst.-Kat. New Burlington Galleries London (July 1938), London 1938, S. 9, Nr. 4.
Wasensteiner, Lucy: The Twentieth Century German Art Exhibition. Answering Degenrate Art in 1930s London, New York 2019, S. 114, Appendix I, Exhibit no. 5, Cat. no. 4.
Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, 600.
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