Meersburg
View of the city and the castle Meersburg with Lake Constance in the background. In the foreground a street with figure figures.
Provenance features: back, wedge frame: inch postmark in blue "ZOLL / II-29 / +"; old adhesive labels from the Städtisches Bodenseemuseum with the historical inventory numbers "Mu 869/54" and "e) 11"; a torn off larger, tanned label; Back, canvas: inch postmark in blue "ZOLL / II-29 / +"
Catalog of the 16th special exhibition of the Berlin National Gallery Berlin: works by A. Dressler (Breslau), A. Lier, E. Neureuther and A. Eybel. Berlin 1883.
1875: painted by the artist;
1875: exhibited at the Kunstverein Breslau, obviously not sold;
1883: exhibited as No. 61 in the 16th special exhibition of the National Gallery Berlin, owner: the widow of the artist Mrs. Luise Dressler in Breslau;
May 1883: not sold and returned to Mrs. Luise Dressler to Breslau;
until 1954: unknown;
before 1954: export from Switzerland, stamp from the customs office Zurich cargo;
1954: Gallery Dr. Benno Griebert, Constance;
1954: purchase of the Städtische Bodenseemuseum Friedrichshafen;
1975: Letter from a descendant of Dresslers to the Bodenseemusem with reference to missing paintings "in the East" and question about the origin of the painting
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