Received through JRSO (Jewish Restitution Successor Organization)
The painting belonged to the collection of Gustav and Clara Kirstein in Leipzig. Gustav died in 1934; five years later Clara took her own life when she learned that she was about to be sent to a concentration camp. The collection was expropriated by the Nazis, and this painting was designated for Hitler’s proposed “Führermuseum” in Linz.
After being found in a salt mine in Alt-Aussee in 1945, the painting was sent first to the Munich Central Collecting Point and four years later to the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point. In 1952 it was sent to the Bezalel National Museum, precursor of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO), and in 2018 it was restituted to the legal heirs.
