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The mills valley from Amalfi
Lost Art-ID
565894
Artist / Creator
Blechen, Karl
Birth
1798.07.29, Cottbus
Death
1840.07.23, Berlin
Place of activity
Berlin
Title
The mills valley from Amalfi
Dating
1830 (around)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
74.40 cm
Width
99.40 cm
Inventory number
mü20037
Description
on stretcher, verso: upper left in red grease pencil: "# 1652 3" (not identified); upper centre in red: "19" [in circle] (not identified); upper right fragment of a white label with blue border [not legible] (not identified); upper right in black: "42" (lot no. auct. 1927); top right in blue bold chalk: ‘20037’ (Mü-No.); top right in white bold chalk: ‘F. T. 1’ (not identified); bottom centre in white: ‘42’ (lot no. auct. 1927); bottom left in yellow: ‘4’ (not identified); bottom left white, yellowed label ‘Das Mühlental bei Amalfi ca 1830 [/] v. Blechen, Carl [/] 1798-1840 [/] Lfd. No. 49’ (object data/not identified), above round stamp “Bundespräsidialamt [/] Bundes[/]eigen[/]tum” (proof of provenance, after 1945); white, yellowed label with blue border and perforated edge “3904” (Linz no.).
Provenance
(...) Unexplained
From 1906-1911 at the latest ‘Dr D. H. Goldschmidt, Berlin’, most likely Isaac (gen. Jacques) Heymann Goldschmidt (1842-1911), Berlin, acquisition path unclear
From 13 December 1927-13 November 1938 at the latest Dr Eugen Carl Goldschmidt (1878-1938)], Berlin, presumably succession (probably together with brother Dr Arthur Jacques Goldschmidt (1882-1938))
13 November 1938-11 October 1939 Irmgard [Gerty] Leontine Hoeniger, née Moor (1914-1939), and Edgar Jacques Moor (1912-1994), Johannesburg/South Africa, succession
11 October 1939-2 July 1942 / 13 November 1942 Edgar Jacques Moor (1912-1994), Johannesburg/South Africa, later New York/USA, succession
2 July 1942-13 November 1942 Most likely Secret State Police, confiscation
13 November 1942-5 September 1944 Most likely German Reich, expropriation (administration and realisation by the Chief Finance President of Berlin-Brandenburg)
5 September 1944 - end of April 1945 Adolf Hitler (‘Sonderauftrag Linz’), purchase via auction house Hans W. Lange, Berlin
End of April 1945-19 February 1946 unknown, theft from the ‘Führerbau’ in Munich
19 February 1946-10 June 1949 American Military Government, Central Collecting Point Munich, handed over by the criminal investigation department, Munich
10 June 1949-22 February 1952 Prime Minister of Bavaria, Munich, fiduciary handover by the American military government
22 February 1952-May/August 2024 Federal Republic of Germany, initially in fiduciary custody, taken over from former Reich assets in 1960
May/August 2024 Restitution to the legal successors of Edgar Jacques Moor
Status
restituted
Published since
Contact
Kunstverwaltung des Bundes
Herbert-Bayer-Straße 5
13086 Berlin
Germany
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