Margarethe / Singer / Anna Schindler [Moll] née Bergen (1857-1938)
Frame: Frame: Lime or walnut wood, dimensions: 92 cm x 78.5 cm, in the Baroque style, consisting of four precisely fitted elements. The frame is richly carved with plant motifs, covered with ducat gold, worn in places. Scratched letter "G" on one part. The inside of the frame completed with wooden inlay of a different type. On the back of the frame, a massive hook at the top, next to it a damaged, commercially available paper label, testifying to its belonging to someone's art collection or the inventory number. The baroque frame may be a replacement or part of the original furnishings of the supraport in a palace or castle.
The painting: depicts a German nobleman in a silk ball dress from the years 1892-1895, with beautiful lace, unsymetric bows, dresses and motifs, with three bead strings, the suspended cross and other, symbolic, discrete features of the Gretchen symbolism. Modest hair and jewelry, long handschool over the elbows, salmon colored.
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The owners of the supraporte were:
Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria-Tuscany and his heirs from the Tuscan line of the Habsburgs > the last Habsburgs to reign in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy > Republic of Austria > Carl Moll
Owner of the revised portrait
Carl Moll until the beginning of 1945
1945 Upper Silesia (Bytom). The portrait with the likeness of Anna Schindler, née Bergen, in a gilded frame was found and saved in the spring of 1945 by the Polish family who had moved into one of the flats in the factory building of the United Karsten Centre, which was built in 1938/1939 for higher functionaries of the NSDAP who were supposed to supervise the coal industry.