Found-Object Report | Object report

Floating male nude

Lost Art-ID

613388

Artist / Creator

Carstens, Asmus Jakob

Birth

1754.05.10, St. Jürgen (Schleswig)

Death

1798.05.25, Rom

Place of activity

Eckernförde; Kopenhagen; Lübeck; Berlin; Rom

Title

Floating male nude

Dating

2. Hälfte 18. Jahrhundert

Object type

Drawing

Group of reported objects

Graphic

Material / Technique

Paper ; Red chalk / drawn

Measures

Blattmaß 13,8 x 18,5 cm

Height

13.80 cm

Width

18.50 cm

Inventory number

Z 528

Description

unmarked

Provenance

Purchased at auction 199 from C. G. Boerner in Leipzig on 25.05.1938. The list of ownership in the auction catalogue for lot number 220 gives the code G (93), behind which Irmgard Heumann, the wife of the Chemnitz collector Carl Heumann, is concealed as the consignor. The banker and vice-consul Carl Heumann was of Jewish origin and was increasingly subjected to far-reaching repression with his family from 1935 onwards.

Status

restituted

Literature / Source

Deutsche Handzeichnungen der Romantikerzeit, Deutsche Graphik des frühen XIX. Jahrhunderts, Deutsche Zeichnungen der zweiten Hälfte des XVI. Jahrhunderts, Aukt.-Kat. Leipzig, C.G. Boerner 25.5.1938 (Kat. 199), Los 147; Bildnis und Komposition 1750-1850. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. Aus der Sammlung Heumann Chemnitz [Einführung von Werner Teupfer], Katalog zur Ausstellung in Leipziger Kunstverein 1934, Leipzig, 1934, Nr. 220.

Published since

31.03.2023