Cows at the potions (the work title was awarded posthumously)

Purchase of the Stuttgart Glazier and "junk dealer" Otto Bolz by the Kulturreferat Stuttgart in January 1939 at an unusually high price of 1000 RM for a non-typical picture of the artist. Bolz was born in Stuttgart. The German office leads him as missing because he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1944 at the latest and was reported from August 1944 in Romania as missing. From 1938-1941 he ran a pre-sale business ("flea market").

Bolz most likely offered the glass and gilt-framed painting to the Stuttgart Art Department in November or December 1938. Its provenance is unknown. About Bolz is almost nothing known about his business, there are no documents.

The acquisition circumstances at the beginning of the year 1939 are extremely strange and ambiguous. The current evidence does not give the appearance of a legitimate acquisition by Bolz. This is supported by the time-historical context in which he founded and operated his business, and the contradictory information on the Glazier and "junk dealer" Bolz himself.

A craftsman who works for about two years as a "junk dealer" and "art dealer" sells the city a painting at an unusually high price, in terms of its importance then, and is referred to by the city in the inventory book as an "art dealer" that he was not.

Not only is there a long provenance gap that can not be closed, so far it can not be explained where Bolz got the painting from. Because the date of acquisition falls into a late phase of the "Third Reich" and Bolz's business activities take place at exactly the time when the material looting of the Jews reaches its peak, there is a suspicion that the painting has been deprived of Nazi persecution.