European & British Art
European & British Art
Property Restituted to the Heirs of Malvine Stern
Rudolf von Alt
Naples, view from the Northwest over the Bay of Naples, with Vesuvius in the background
Lot Closed
July 14, 01:04 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property Restituted to the Heirs of Malvine Stern
Rudolf von Alt
Austrian
1812 - 1905
Naples, view from the Northwest over the Bay of Naples, with Vesuvius in the background
signed R Alt lower left
oil on canvas
Unframed: 36 by 62cm., 14¼ by 24½in.
Framed: 51 by 74cm., 20 by 29in.
Sale: Galerie Miethke, Vienna, 12 February 1906, lot 9 (estate sale of the artist)
Malvine Stern (née Tafler), Vienna, by 1909
Max Bulla, Vienna (Austrian cyclist who won the Tour de Suisse in 1931 as well as several stages of the Tour de France in the same year; acquired from the above before February 1939 by involuntary sale)
Galerie Maria Almas Dietrich, Munich (according to a statement by Maria Almas Dietrich acquired from a private collector in Baden near Vienna)
Führermuseum, Linz, acquired from above (inventory number 565) and stored at the Führerbau, Munich
Transferred to Alt Aussee (inventory number 4368)
Recovered by Allied Forces October 1945 and sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point (inventory number 9148)
Transferred to German Federal Authorities, June 1949, and loaned to the Deutsche Parlamentarische Gesellschaft (German Parliamentary Club) in 2007
Restituted to the heirs of Malvine Stern, 2021
Malvine Stern (née Tafler), Vienna, by 1909
Max Bulla, Vienna (Austrian cyclist who won the Tour de Suisse in 1931 as well as several stages of the Tour de France in the same year; acquired from the above before February 1939 by involuntary sale)
Galerie Maria Almas Dietrich, Munich (according to a statement by Maria Almas Dietrich acquired from a private collector in Baden near Vienna)
Führermuseum, Linz, acquired from above (inventory number 565) and stored at the Führerbau, Munich
Transferred to Alt Aussee (inventory number 4368)
Recovered by Allied Forces October 1945 and sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point (inventory number 9148)
Transferred to German Federal Authorities, June 1949, and loaned to the Deutsche Parlamentarische Gesellschaft (German Parliamentary Club) in 2007
Restituted to the heirs of Malvine Stern, 2021
Arthur Roessler, Rudolf von Alt, 1812-1905, Vienna, 1909, no. 86
Ludwig Hevesi, Rudolf Alt. Sein Leben und Sein Werk, MS published posthumously by Karl M. Kuzmany, Vienna, 1911, p. 103
Marianne Hussl-Hörmann, ed., Rudolf von Alt: The Oil Paintings, Vienna, 2011, p. 150, no. WV. 62, catalogued, p. 74, illustrated
Ludwig Hevesi, Rudolf Alt. Sein Leben und Sein Werk, MS published posthumously by Karl M. Kuzmany, Vienna, 1911, p. 103
Marianne Hussl-Hörmann, ed., Rudolf von Alt: The Oil Paintings, Vienna, 2011, p. 150, no. WV. 62, catalogued, p. 74, illustrated