The old von Bredow
Findings on the back:
On the cardboard top left an almost completely detached label: "....ommeter?...", (JP: Galerie Commeter) below handwritten in pencil: "OM 1038 Smk?’, next to it a yellowed label with stamp edge: ‘Kestner-Gesellschaft / Hannover / H (blue, handwritten), Nr. 693 (blue, handwritten)", below it handwritten in blue: “19500 (crossed out)”, next to it a white sticker: “7611”, below it in the centre a small white sticker with blue ornamental print and stamp edge: “I / 26”, below it handwritten in red upside down: "N. 10 (underlined three times)", below it handwritten in blue: “G (or Q) BS (crossed out to the red 10)”, at bottom left a round stamp: “Museum der Stadt Stettin”, next to it handwritten in black: “B. 781”, at bottom right a round stamp: “Museum der Stadt Stettin”, on the frame at top left a white sticker: “Modersohn / Alte Bredow”, on the back cover label BStGS: "Inv.- No. 13561"
n.d. - at least 1928, Geheimrat Grünebaum, Düsseldorf, exhibited in the Flechtheim Gallery from the estate of Geheimrat Grünebaum;
n.d. - 06.08.1937, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Stettin;
06.08.1937 - presumably 1939, German Reich, Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin, confiscated as ‘degenerate art’ in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Stettin;
n.d. - n.d., probably Bernhard Hoetger (1874 - 1949), Worpswede;
n.d. - n.d., Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, acquired on commission from a private collection;
n.d. - 1964, Sofie Fohn (1899 - 1990) and Emanuel Fohn , Rome/Bolzano;
since 1964, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, acquired as a gift from Sofie and Emanuel Fohn, Bolzano
Staatliche Museumsagentur Bayern
Referat für Provenienzforschung
Landshuter Allee 8
80637 München
Germany