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Philosophy (The Faculty of Philosophy completed)

Lost Art-ID
592018
Artist / Creator
Klimt, Gustav
Birth
1862.07.14, Baumgarten (Wien)
Death
1918.02.06, Wien
Place of activity
Wien
Title
Philosophy (The Faculty of Philosophy completed)
Dating
1900-1907
Object type
Painting
Group of reported objects
Painting
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
430.00 cm
Width
300.00 cm
Description

after Weidinger, No 138: Philosophy, dated 1900-1907, size: 430 x 300 cm, technique: oil on canvas, insc. bottom right: "GUSTAV KLIMT", Provenance: K. K. Ministerium für Unterricht, Vienna (commissioned on 4 Sept. 1894; bought back by Klimt on 25 May 1905); August and Serena Lederer; Vienna (1905 erw.); Erich Lederer, Geneva; Österreichische Galerie, Vienna (1944 erw.)

Exhibitions: Vienna (secession, VII. exhibitions) 1900, No. 22 (only until the end of March); Paris (Weltausst.) 1900, Secession Hall, No. 5; Dresden (Internationale Kunstausst.) 1901, No. 353; Vienna (secession, XVIII. exhibitions) 1903104, No. 23; Berlin (Kunsthandlung Keller & Reiner) 1907 (no cat.); Vienna (Galerie Miethke) 1907 (no cat.); Vienna (Ausstellungshaus Friedrichstraße, former Secession) 1943, no. 6 (fig. 6), sketches: Strobl, I, no. 455-488; Strobl, IV, no. 3334-3364

Provenance
Collection August and Serena Lederer, Vienna (1940); confiscated by Gestapo and "seized", 1944 Austrian Gallery, Vienna; officially burned at Immendorf Castle, Lower Austria, on 8 May 1945, looting cannot be excluded
Literature / Source

BDA Wien Restitutionsmaterialien Karton 9 Sammlung Lederer, Liste der sichergestellten Kunstgegenstände vom 20.11.1940 Nr. 110; Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war, 2003, August und Serena Lederer, Liste der sichergestellten Kunstgegenstände Nr. 110; Alfred Weidinger, Gustav Klimt, 2007, Werksverzeichnis-Nr. 138; 0. A (Kunstchronik) 1894/1895a, sp. 125; Vincenti, 1899/1900, S. 368- 372; 0. A (Kunst für Alle), 1899/1900, S. 478; 0. A (Kunst für Alle), 1899/1900a, S. 500; V S.1900, S. 151- 166; Versacrum, Jg. III (1900), Nr. 10, S. 150 (Abb.); Muther, Bd. I, 1900

Published since
09.10.2020
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
Circumstances of loss reported as
Nazi-confiscated property
Search Request, Person

Lederer, Serena und August

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