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Lot 19
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Hans Thoma

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hans Thoma
  • Dämmerung am Gardasee (Dusk on Lake Garda)
  • signed with the monogram and dated 1906 lower right
  • oil on board
  • 68 by 84 cm., 26¾ by 33in.

Provenance

Oscar Hermes, Munich, 1909
Ottmar Strauss, Cologne, 1922; sale: Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt, 22 May 1935, lot 180
Kunsthaus Ludwig Brettschneider, Munich; acquired by NSDAP Reichsleiter Martin Bormann on 5 February 1943
Removed from the NSDAP Parteizentrale to Bad Aussee circa 1944-1945
Transferred from Bad Aussee to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 29 October 1945-10 June 1949
Transferred to the Bayerische Gemäldesammlungen on 10 April 1957
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Neue Pinakothek, Munich (until 2004)
Restituted to the Heirs of Ottmar Strauss, 2004
Sale: Christie's, Amsterdam, 26 April 2005, lot 149
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Thoma-Ausstellung: Gemälde von Hans Thoma aus Deutschem Privatbesitz, 1922, no. 175
Munich, Haus der Kunst, München 1869-1958: Aufbruch zur modernen Kunst, 1958, no. 389
Salzburg, Salzburger Kunstverein, Jubiläumsausstellung Der Wassermann, 125 Jahre Salzburger Kunstverein, 1969, no. 87

Literature

Henry Thode, Thoma, Des Meisters Gemälde in 874 Abbildungen, Stuttgart & Leipzig, 1909, p. 477, illustrated
Christian Lenz (ed.), Deutsche Künstler von Marees bis Slevogt. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Neue Pinakothek München, vol. III, Munich, 2003. p. 175, no. 12579, illustrated

Condition

The board is in good condition. Under UV light there are strokes of retouching visible in the upper left corner and spots to craquelure overall.
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