The Institute walk
Wide green landscape near Rothenburg o. T. Blue sky with summer clouds. On a field path a girl class in dark institute clothes and straw hats. Two sisters follow the class. On the left under bushes resting country people. On the right on a path a soldier with his girl.
Back: Canvas stamped in red "A. policeman, Munich" (hard to decipher) and canvas stamped in black: "Wimmer & Co., Gallery of Fine Arts in Munich," Stretcher left: label BStGS, canvas top "Inv No. 11995th" : blue bordered label "Spitzweg 66 Institute walk" label next to "Kunstmuseum Winterthur 42, exhibition Europ Master June / July 1955 Catalog No. / 88. ', behind in blue" 6. "(Residual taped over), next to blue bordered label "66" (Hoffmann Collection), Stretcher top right: in blue "27880" (Munich number), Stretcher down inside: black "PR", decorative frame above: in blue "27880 APM 845 "carved over the extent of the screwed back: "Haus der Kunst: Spitzweg, Leihgeber Pinakothek, Kat. Nr. 60", Etikett BStGS "Inv.Nr. 11995"
19.06.1872- without date Gallery Wimmer, Munich
without date -12.12.1899 Baron Theodor von Dreyfus, consigned at auction Helbing-Riegner, Munich
12.12.1899- without date whereabouts unknown
without date -08.09.1934 Baroness von Eschwege
from 08.09.1934 to 1938 Julius Streicher, Nuremberg, purchased at auction Hugo Helbing, Munich
presumably 1938-1945 Heinrich Hoffmann
04.05.1946-25.04.1949 Central Collecting Point, Munich number 27880, secured by American Allies
25.04.1949-22.02.1952 Prime Minister of Bavaria, fiduciary handover by American allies
22.02.1952-10.02.1953 Trusteeship of cultural property at the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Munich, fiduciary handover by Bavarian Minister-Presidents
12.12.1952-1957 in Bavarian administration, changing ownership
since 28.02.1957 Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich, transfer of ownership of the Munich financial centre to the Free State of Bavaria
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