Found-Object Report | Object report

View from the dunes to the sea

Lost Art-ID
630035
Artist / Creator
Ruisdael, Jacob Isaackszoon van
Birth
1628/1629?, Haarlem
Death
(vor) 1682.03.14, Amsterdam? / Haarlem?
Place of activity
Haarlem; Amsterdam
Title
View from the dunes to the sea
Dating
1655 (around)
Object type
Painting
Group of reported objects
Painting
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Measures
Frame dimensions: 46 x 55 x 10 cm
Height
26.00 cm
Width
35.00 cm
Inventory number
R 31
Description
inscribed lower right: Jacob vRuisdael [vR ligated]; verso on decorative frame upper left white label in black: Royal Academy of Arts, London / Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape / 25 February 2006 to 4 June 2006 / Jacob van Ruisdael Key No. 33 Cat No. 26 / View from the Dunes to the Sea / Kunsthaus Zürich, Stiftung Prof. Dr. L. Ruzicka; next to it blue KHZ label in black; upper right: 31 [Ruzicka number]. Chalk in blue: 31 [Ruzicka number]; top l. Remains of a yellowed label with double red edging line: [illegible]; centre left white label in black: Fa. A. J. HEIJDENRIJK Jr. / AMSTERDAM C DEN HAAG / Rokin 105 Noordeinde 134; below yellowed label in black: [9?]6; centre right indentation: AJH; below yellowed label in black: [9? Notch: AJH; in circle; below l. white KHZ label in black; on stretcher upper l. round stamp in black: Zoll / 11.[illegible]; in circle; next to it brown, lined KHZ label in black: KUNST[...]A[...] / Künstler: / Titel: / Besitzer: / Katalog-Nr. :; therein in black: [ms] Jacob van Ruisdael / Blick von den Dünen aufs Meer / Ruzicka-Stiftung / 31; above brown label in black: [Staatli]che Museen Berlin Gemä[unleserlich] / catalogue no.; therein in black: 2181 / Jac. V. Ruisdael / Dünenlandschaft [hs]; top right brown lined label in black: No.; inside in brown: [48419?] / Jac. Ruisdael / [Zee?] u Duine / [?]ock. 21 ½ : 36 cm. [hs] [label of the firm Paul Cassirer Amsterdam]; top centre brown label in graphite pencil: 57 [hs]; below chalk in blue: 379 [or 319?]; top left in graphite pencil: x; centre stamp in blue on middle strut: [illegible] AMSTERDAM; in circle; below two further [inch] stamps: [illegible]; above an X; bottom left stamp in black:DOUANES FRANCAISES [illegible] / de Paris / [illegible]; in double circle; below centre on middle strut in blue: 362 [hs]; below stamp in blue: ZOLLAMT [illegible] KÖLN-GEREON; therein an eagle; in circle; verso on canvas above left in violet: Zollamt / Flughafen / [Berlin? l. in violet: Zollamt / Flughafen / [Berlin?][...] [hs]; below stamp in violet: DOUANE FRANCAISE [illegible]; in double circle
Provenance

from 6.1924, A. Berg, Paris, purchase

[whereabouts unknown?]

Kurt Walter Bachstitz (*1882 Breslau, +1949 The Hague) (art dealer), The Hague

[whereabouts unknown?]

probably, n.d. - 6.1.1936, Fr. Seiler (presumably Galerie Fritz Seiler), Berlin

6.1.1936, Walter Andreas Hofer (*1893 Berlin, +1971) (art dealer), Berlin, purchase

6.1.1936 - 16.5.1936, Julius Böhler (art dealer), Munich, purchase

6.6.1936 - 10.12.1942, Grete S. Ring (*1887 Berlin, +1952 Zurich) (art dealer), Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, exchange, no. 5286

4.9.1940 - no longer than 10.12.1942, Robert Haberling (forwarding agent), Berlin, safekeeping

10.12.1942 - 12.7.1943, Chief Finance President Berlin "Vermögensverwertungsstelle" (art trade), Berlin-Brandenburg

12.7.1943 - n.d, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (Museum), Berlin, purchase, cat. no. 2181, inv. no. 1213

[whereabouts unknown?]

3.1944, Kaiseroda Mine (Merkers) or Ransbach

11.10.1945, transport from Heilbronn salt mine to Wiesbaden, crate G234, Mü no. 1883/5

9.1946, Kaiser-Friedrich Museum (Bode-Museum) (Museum), Berlin, no. 1277, KFM 2181

probably, 23.10.1946, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Museum)

2.3.1946, transport to Holland, restitution

from 1947 at the earliest - 21.11.1949, Galerie Paul Cassirer & Co. (Gallery), Amsterdam, restitution

n.d. - 21.11.1949, Walter Feilchenfeldt (*1894 Berlin, +1953 Zurich) (art dealer), Zurich

21.11.1949 - 2005, Ruzicka Foundation (collection), Zurich, purchase

1949 - 2005, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, loan

from 2005, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich

The provenance between 1933 and 1945 has not been clearly clarified or has gaps. No evidence of Nazi-looted art has emerged from the available research. However, there are indications of Nazi-looted art and/or conspicuous accompanying circumstances. The provenance must be investigated further.

Further information in the online catalogue of the Kunsthaus Zürich: external link

Literature / Source

Seymour Slive: Jacob van Ruisdael. A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, S. 446, Nr. 634.

Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, S. 107.

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