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Property from the Collection of Johanna Margarete and Siegbert Stern

Wassily Kandinsky

Murnau mit Kirche II (Murnau with Church II)

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March 1, 08:32 PM GMT

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Property from the Collection of Johanna Margarete and Siegbert Stern

Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944


Murnau mit Kirche II (Murnau with Church II)

signed Kandinsky and dated 1910 (lower right); inscribed by Gabriele Münter on the stretcher

oil on canvas

96 by 105.5 cm. 37¾ by 41½ in.

Executed in 1910.


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喬安娜・瑪格麗特與西格貝特・斯特恩伉儷收藏

瓦西里・康丁斯基

1866 - 1944年


《教堂與穆爾瑙風景 II》

款識︰藝術家簽名 Kandinsky 並紀年1910(右下);加布莉爾・明特於內框題款

油彩畫布

96 x 105.5 公分;37¾ x 41½ 英寸

1910年作

This work has been requested for the forthcoming exhibition After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art to be held at the National Gallery, London, 25 March – 13 August 2023.
Siegbert Samuel Stern, Berlin (acquired by 1924)
Johanna Margarete Stern-Lippmann, Berlin; Locarno; Amsterdam; Bloemendaal and Hilversum (widow of the above; acquired by inheritance from the above in 1935)
Myrtil Frank, Berlin and Amsterdam (probably acquired from the above between December 1941 and April 1943)
Karl A. Legat, The Hague
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (acquired from the above in 1951)
Restituted to the heirs of Johanna Margarete Stern-Lippmann in 2022

 

Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 613, pp. 60 and 400, illustrated (titled Blick auf Murnau mit Kirche)
Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. I, London, 1982, no. 348, p. 327, illustrated