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Das Klavierspiel / Playing the piano

Lost Art-ID
477912
Artist
Spitzweg, Carl
Birth
1808.02.05, München
Death
1885.09.23, München
Place of activity
Pommersfelden; Benediktbeuern
Title
Das Klavierspiel / Playing the piano
Dating
1840 (um)
Object type
Drawing
Group of reported objects
Graphic
Material / Technique
Pencil ; Paper / drawn ; washed ; drawn (pen-and-ink drawing)
Height
16.40 cm
Width
13.00 cm
Description

on recto, lower right, signed: “Spitzweg”

on verso, centre, inscribed in black: “Spitzweg / Aus der Sammlung Geh. Rat / Hinrichsen – Leipzig”; lower centre, framer’s label: “ERICH BRETTSCHNEIDER / EB / Rahmen / Leipzig / Harkortstr. 7 / 29737/ Tel.- ”; lower right, inscribed in pencil: “Heinrichsen” [?]

Cat. Rais.: Wichmann 2002 compositional study for no. 161

Holding
Restituted works
Holding
Restitutionen
Provenance

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Sale: Handzeichnungen von Karl Spitzweg, Galerie Helbing, Munich, 9 April 1908, lot 76

(…)

Henri Hinrichsen, Leipzig

31 August 1939: Seized by the Nazi authorities and thereafter deposited in the Museum für Bildende Künste, Leipzig

7 January 1940: acquired by Hildebrand Gurlitt, Hamburg

By descent to Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg

From 6 May 2014: Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt

13 October 2014: Recommended for restitution

12 January 2021: Restitution to the heirs of Henri Hinrichsen

Status
restituted
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