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Enthroned Mary with child (Madonna Seligmann)

Lost Art-ID
630050
Artist / Creator
Unknown (rhenish)
Title
Enthroned Mary with child (Madonna Seligmann)
Dating
1250–1274 (around)
Object type
Sculpture
Group of reported objects
Sculpture
Material / Technique
Wood (Lime) / painted
Height
71.00 cm
Width
36.00 cm
Depth
28.00 cm
Inventory number
1951/0016
Description
in the hollowed-out back upper center label: 11 [ms] [corresponds to number in box/folder depictions of the Virgin with detail from publication (in color) with no. 11 (Rhenish, mid-13th century, Seated Madonna with Child) in the picture archive A. Gebhardt and P. Griebert, art archive of the MGS, Schweinfurt]; lower center label: 11 [ms]; lower center KHZ label [ms/hs]
Provenance

from 29.4.1930 at the latest - undated, Hauptmann, Berlin, purchase, 72,000 RM

Whereabouts unknown

undated - 1951, Walter Bornheim (*1888 Cologne) (art dealer), Munich

from 1951, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, purchase, 1954 refinanced from the legacy of Karl Näf

The provenance between 1933 and 1945 has not been clearly clarified 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

Eugen Lüthgen: Rheinische Kunst des Mittelalters aus Kölner Privatbesitz, Bonn/Leipzig 1921, Tafel 35.

Hermann Ball [Hrsg.]; Paul Graupe [Hrsg.]: Die Sammlung Dr. Leopold Seligmann, Köln; Aukt.-Kat. (Versteigerung am 28. und 29. April 1930), Berlin 1930, S. 19, Nr. 137.

Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, S. 20.

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