Margarethe / Singer / Anna Schindler [Moll] née Bergen (1857-1938)
Possibly it is a work of Gustav Klimt.
Frame: Frame: Lime or walnut wood, dimensions: 92 cm x 78.5 cm, in the Baroque style, consisting of four precisely fitted elements. The frame is richly carved with plant motifs, covered with ducat gold, worn in places. Scratched letter "G" on one part. The inside of the frame completed with wooden inlay of a different type. On the back of the frame, a massive hook at the top, next to it a damaged, commercially available paper label, testifying to its belonging to someone's art collection or the inventory number. The baroque frame may be a replacement or part of the original furnishings of the supraport in a palace or castle.
The painting: depicts a German nobleman in a silk ball dress from the years 1892-1895, with beautiful lace, unsymetric bows, dresses and motifs, with three bead strings, the suspended cross and other, symbolic, discrete features of the Gretchen symbolism. Modest hair and jewelry, long handschool over the elbows, salmon colored.
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11945 Upper Silesia (Bytom). The portrait of Anna Schindler, née Bergen, in a gilded frame was found and rescued in the spring of 1945 by a Polish family who had moved into one of the flats in the factory building of the United Karsten Centre, which was built in 1938/1939 for higher functionaries of the NSDAP.
The first owners of the original supraporte were the Habsburgs from the Tuscan line, the last owners of the supraporte, which was reworked for a painting portrait (in its current state find object no. 475958), were before and during the Second World War: Carl Moll, Maria Eberstaller née Moll and Richard Eberstaller, who died tragically on 13 April 1945.
today in private property