Runner with costume from indulgence letters
1 of 5 figurines of a series to the Nuremberg Schembartlauf; Paper with watermarks (Nuremberg mill 1547)
A full-figured Schembart runner with a facial mask and a waist-gowned dress of paper-covered, hand-written indulgence letters. On the sheet in the picture field betextet: "Ich war umbhengt mit Ablaßbrieff Also ich mit dem Schembart lieff". On the individual letters, which are part of the costume, words are handwritten literally as "man find" "Von machen" "folksames" ... " wie sich die Fasnacht drüber giesst, "all gut", "frölich".
[Inscriptions verso (all in pencil): next to Inv. Stamp of the DTM: 38/1420/1; 2164; t. r.: 1036/1; On the right at the edge: 3724/133; l. : H K].
1938 owned by Siegfried Lämmle.
In 1939, the German Theater Museum at the "Münchener Kunstversteigerungshaus Adolf Weinmüller" acquired the 7 hand drawings in the auction from 9th - 10th March 1939 (see annotated auction catalog 19, numbers 72 and 75, here no.
In 1948, the 7 objects are included in an application for reimbursement claims (see file in the State Archives Munich: WB Ia 2265 (3)).
A conditional settlement (AZ: I 2265 (3) // I WKV 56/55) concluded on 15 September 1955 has been paid out for reimbursement.
The subscription, however, could not be obtained at the time of the reparation. After the find and the annotated auction catalogues of the auction house Weinmüller in 2013, which were made available to the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich on permanent loan, the drawing became clearly identifiable.
In agreement with the heirs of Siegfried Lämmle, the drawing was restituted in August 2018. The drawing for the German Theatre Museum was repurchased in November 2018 with funds from the Freundeskreis Theatermuseasten.
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