Found-Object Report | Object report
Portrait of a lady in a black dress and white lace bonnet
Lost Art-ID
616810
Artist
Waldmüller, Ferdinand Georg
Birth
1793.01.15, Wien
Death
1865.08.23, Helmstreitmühle (Baden)
Place of activity
Preßburg; Agram; Wien
Title
Portrait of a lady in a black dress and white lace bonnet
Datierung
1825
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
71.50 cm
Width
57.50 cm
Inventory number
Mü-Nr. 2572; Linz-Nr. 2222
Description
The painting is a bust portrait of a woman in three-quarter profile facing right. The sitter is wearing a black dress with a white transparent scarf decorated with flowers, which is tied in a knot at the front. A white lace bonnet with frills can be seen on her head. The background of the painting is a dark brown colour.
The titles of the work are "Portrait of the artist's sister-in-law", "Portrait of his wife's sister", "Portrait of a lady", "Portrait of his wife's sister with lace bonnet and shawl", "Portrait of his wife's sister with lace bonnet and shawl" and "Old portrait of a woman (sister of the painter's wife)". According to the digital object catalogue of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, the assumption that the sitter is the artist's sister-in-law has not yet been sufficiently substantiated.
The work is signed and dated "Waldmüller 1825" in the lower third of the right-hand edge of the picture.
Holding
Provenance
1825-without date: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793-1865)
(...): Whereabouts unknown
no later than 1937-at least December 1938: Galerie L. T. Neumann, Vienna, acquisition unknown (possibly acquired on commission)
(...): Whereabouts unknown
without date: Heinrich Glosemeyer (1896-1969), Bremen, acquisition path unclear, according to his own statement in family possession for decades and inherited from his parents
without date-17.02.1942: Fridolin Gedon (1876-1943), Munich, according to his own statement acquired from Heinrich Glosemeyer, Bremen
17.02.1942-March 1942: Gallery Almas, Munich, purchase from Fridolin Gedon, Munich
From March 1942: Adolf Hitler ("Sonderauftrag Linz"), purchased by Galerie Almas, Munich, and consigned to the "Führerbau", Munich, inv. no. 2222
05.07.1945-10.06.1949: American military government, safeguarding and transport to the Central Collecting Point, Munich, inv. no. 2572
10.06.1949-22.02.1952: Bavarian Minister President, Munich, fiduciary takeover
22.02.1952-1960: Trustee Administration of Cultural Property at the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Munich, fiduciary takeover
1960-today: Federal Republic of Germany, Munich/Berlin, acquisition from former Reich property on the basis of Article 134 of the Basic Law
Literature / Source
Ausst.-Kat. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller 1793–1865, Galerie Welz, Salzburg, Sommer 1937, S. 12, Nr. 2, ohne Abb.
Annonce der Galerie L. T. Neumann, Wien. In: Die Weltkunst, Jg. XII, Nr. 51, 18.12.1938, S. 2.
Bruno Grimschitz: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Salzburg 1957, Kat. Nr. 149, S. 288 mit Abb.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Hg.): Tätigkeitsbericht 1971, Nürnberg 1971, S. 8 (erwähnt im Text), ohne Abb.
Anonym: „Neuerwerbungen des Germanischen Nationalmuseums“. In: Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums 1971/72, Nürnberg 1972, S. 171, Abb. Nr. 5.
Birgit Schwarz: Hitlers Museum. Die Fotoalben der Gemäldegalerie Linz. Dokumente zum „Führermuseum“, Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2004, S. 151, Nr. XXIII/11, Abb. S. 371.
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