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Tote Stadt VI. Die kleine Stadt I (Dead city VI The small town I)
Lost Art-ID
630022
Artist / Creator
Schiele, Egon
Birth
1890.06.12, Tulln
Death
1918.10.31, Wien
Place of activity
Wien
Title
Tote Stadt VI. Die kleine Stadt I (Dead city VI The small town I)
Dating
1912
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Measures
Frame dimensions: 86,5 x 86,5 x 6,2 cm
Height
80.20 cm
Width
80.20 cm
Inventory number
1964/0001
Description
inscribed recto below right: EGON / SCHIELE / 1912; verso upper left in blue: "7530" [upside down; NS inventory EK no.]; on right strut above in graphite pencil: "Tote Stadt 1912"
verso
Provenance
at the latest from 1921 - 1937, Städtisches Museum Hagen (Museum), Hagen, work was not owned by the city of Hagen; ownership unclear at the time of confiscation
1937 - 14.6.1939, Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin, confiscation "Entartete Kunst", EK no. 7530
14 June 1939 - 1964, Emanuel Fohn (*1881 Klagenfurt, +1966 Bolzano) (collector), Rome, exchange, 5 RM
1939 - 1964, Sofie Fohn (*1899 Munich, +1990 Bolzano) (collector), Bolzano
from 1964, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, purchase
Further information in the online catalogue of the Kunsthaus Zürich: external link
Literature / Source
Tobias G. Natter: Egon Schiele - Sämtliche Gemälde 1909-1918 , Köln: Taschen Verlag, 2017, S. 517, ill. No. 97.
Die Sammlung Sofie und Emanuel Fohn. Eine Dokumentation, hrsg. von Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, Sammlungskatalog, München: Hirmer, 1990, No. B 115, S. 178.
Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, S. 645.
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